US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on July 29 for "Data storage device configuration using mutual information" (Minnesota, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,365, issued on July 29, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Data storage device configuration using mutual information" was invented by Iouri Oboukhov (Rochester, Minn.), Richard Galbraith (Rochester, Minn.), Jonas Goode (Lake Forest, Calif.), Niranjay Ravindran (Rochester, Minn.) and Jihoon Park (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example systems, data storage devices, testers, and methods for storage device configuration using mutual information are described. A data storage device may include channel circuit configuration settings for the encoding and decoding of data written to a no...