US Patent Issued to WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES on April 29 for "Power-per-processing event estimates based on total power consumption measurements within a data storage device" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,690, issued on April 29, was assigned to WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Power-per-processing event estimates based on total power consumption measurements within a data storage device" was invented by Yoseph Hassan (Nechusha, Israel), Eran Sharon (Rishon Lezion, Israel), Shay Benisty (Beer Sheva, Israel) and Ariel Navon (Revava, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for power management in data storage devices are provided. One such data storage device (DSD) includes a non-volatile memory (NVM), a set of hardware processing engines, and a power sensor to detect a total power consumption of...