US Patent Issued to WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES on July 1 for "Energy-assisted magnetic recording data storage device with opportunistic boosted laser pre-biasing" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,468, issued on July 1, was assigned to WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Energy-assisted magnetic recording data storage device with opportunistic boosted laser pre-biasing" was invented by Guoxiao Guo (Irvine, Calif.), Kei Yasuna (Fujisawa, Japan), William B. Boyle (Lake Forest, Calif.), Qinghua Zeng (Fremont, Calif.) and Dan Wang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various illustrative aspects are directed to a data storage device including one or more disks, an actuator mechanism configured to position a selected head among one or more heads proximate to a corresponding disk surface among the one o...