US Patent Issued to WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES on Feb. 11 for "Data storage device with write caching for maximizing disk access during laser diode steady state" (California, Colorado, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,223,983, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Data storage device with write caching for maximizing disk access during laser diode steady state" was invented by Zarko Popov (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Andrew Larson (Rochester, Minn.) and Wayne H. Vinson (Longmont, Colo.).

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: maintain respective measures of write commands associated with respective ones of shingled magnetic recording (SMR) zones defined in a data storage device, wh...