ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,778, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Channel circuit with zero force equalizer" was invented by Richard Galbraith (Rochester, Minn.), Pradhan Bellam (Rochester, Minn.), Iouri Oboukhov (Rochester, Minn.), Niranjay Ravindran (Rochester, Minn.), Weldon Hanson (Rochester, Minn.) and Jonas Goode (Lake Forest, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example channel circuits, data storage devices, and methods for using zero force adaptation to equalize a read data signal based on known data are described. A known user data signal may be determined during prior read operations and used ...