US Patent Issued to WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES on July 1 for "Data storage device with command selection that minimizes frequency of pre-heating" (California, Colorado, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,466, issued on July 1, was assigned to WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Data storage device with command selection that minimizes frequency of pre-heating" 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: estimate access times of a plurality of access commands included in a command queue of a disk drive containing the one or more disks; adjust a respective one of the access tim...