US Patent Issued to WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES on Feb. 3 for "Reliability assessment for use with power-per-processing event estimations within a data storage device" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,308, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Reliability assessment for use with power-per-processing event estimations within a data storage device" was invented by Ariel Navon (Revava, Israel), Eran Sharon (Rishon Lezion, Israel), Yoseph Hassan (Nechusha, Israel) and Shay Benisty (Beer Sheeva, 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 measure a total power consumption of the set...