US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on June 3 for "Servo-write for magnetic disk media archival data storage system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,422, issued on June 3, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Servo-write for magnetic disk media archival data storage system" was invented by Toshiki Hirano (San Jose, Calif.), Guoxiao Guo (Irvine, Calif.) and Ian R. McFadyen (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic media library drive includes a first disk medium fixed to a spindle, a first read-write transducer configured to operate on the first disk, a second read-write transducer configured to operate on a surface of a single removable second disk medium installed over the first disk, and electronic controller circuitry configur...