US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics on July 8 for "Method of operating a hard disk drive, corresponding controller, hard disk drive and processing device" (Italian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,385, issued on July 8, was assigned to STMicroelectronics S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).

"Method of operating a hard disk drive, corresponding controller, hard disk drive and processing device" was invented by Ezio Galbiati (Agnadello, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with an embodiment a method includes: receiving a slow down command to slow down a speed of a voice coil motor (VCM) in a hard disk drive; in response to receiving the slow down command, operating the VCM in a discontinuous mode by switching on and off a current through the VCM with a duty-cycle, wherein operating the VCM in the discontinuous mode redu...