US Patent Issued to WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES on June 10 for "Data storage device with flexible logical tracks and radius-independent data rate" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,577, issued on June 10, was assigned to WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Data storage device with flexible logical tracks and radius-independent data rate" was invented by David R. Hall (Rochester, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various illustrative aspects are directed to a data storage device, comprising one or more disks; at least one actuator mechanism configured to position at least a first head proximate to a first disk surface and a second head proximate to a second disk surface; and one or more processing devices. The one or more processing devices are configured to: assign logical tracks to physic...