ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,576, issued on June 10, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Adjustable sub-regions for shingled magnetic recording" was invented by David Hall (Rochester, Minn.), Shad Thorstenson (Rochester, Minn.) and Andrew Larson (Rochester, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data is written in tracks in a first sub-region of a region of a disk using Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR). It is determined whether a predetermined data storage capacity for the region can be reached by adding a sub-region guard band shingle writing throughout a remaining portion of the region using a lower limit of track overlap. The...