US Patent Issued to WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES on April 15 for "Data storage device with embedded mode hop predictor patterns" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,957, issued on April 15, was assigned to WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Data storage device with embedded mode hop predictor patterns" was invented by Guoxiao Guo (Irvine, Calif.) and Kei Yasuna (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various illustrative aspects are directed to a data storage device, method, and one or more processing devices that are configured to: write a plurality of test servo patterns using a plurality of different write settings; select one of the plurality of different write settings based on analyzing the plurality of test servo patterns for mode hop; and write a plurality of f...