ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,968, issued on July 15, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Servo interface circuitry for parallel self-servo write" was invented by Yanning Liu (San Jose, Calif.), Ryan Mayo (Aliso Viejo, Calif.), Guoxiao Guo (Irvine, Calif.), Joey M. Poss (Rochester, Minn.), 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 servo interface circuitry, data storage devices, and methods to provide parallel self-servo write in a data storage device are described. The data storage device may include servo control circuitry tha...