ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,965, issued on July 15, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Preamplifier circuit for parallel self-servo write" was invented by Joey M. Poss (Rochester, Minn.), Guoxiao Guo (Irvine, Calif.), Yanning Liu (San Jose, Calif.), Ryan Mayo (Aliso Viejo, Calif.), Richard Conway (San Jose, Calif.), Scott A Ottele (Longmont, Colo.) and Charles A. Park (Aromas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example storage preamplifier circuits, data storage devices, and methods for parallel self-servo write are described. The data storage device may include a pair of preamplifier circuits electrically connected to res...