US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on March 25 for "Machine learning defect management in storage devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,877, issued on March 25, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Machine learning defect management in storage devices" was invented by Saket Giri (San Jose, Calif.), Anand Lallan Gupta (San Jose, Calif.), Jonathan Lloyd (Newport Beach, Calif.) and Amit Chattopadhyay (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods are provided for managing defects in Hard Disk Drive (HDD) storage devices. In particular, only a portion of the cylinders of an HDD is tested. Machine learning modeling is used to reconstruct the data for the untested cylinders. An HDD comprises a rotating disk and a read/write head...