US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics, STMicroelectronics. KK on Aug. 12 for "Method of operating hard disk drives, corresponding hard disk drive and processing device" (Italian, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,758, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to STMicroelectronics S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy) and STMicroelectronics. KK (Tokyo).

"Method of operating hard disk drives, corresponding hard disk drive and processing device" was invented by Marco Ferrari (Voghera, Italy), Davide Betta (Barzano, Italy), Diego Tognoli (Tokyo) and Roberto Trabattoni (Corbetta, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with an embodiment, a hard disk drive includes voice coil motors (VCMs) coupled to respective control units configured to drive retract an operation of the VCMs in the hard disk drive. The retract operation of the VCMs includes a sequenc...