US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on May 13 for "Data storage device executing host access commands in a manner to optimize performance and reduce energy costs" (California, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,283, issued on May 13, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Data storage device executing host access commands in a manner to optimize performance and reduce energy costs" was invented by Stephen Cauterucio (San Jose, Calif.), Abigail Cheng (Aliso Viejo, Calif.) and Andrew Larson (Rochester, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device executes access commands received from a host by a recording head actuated over a magnetic storage medium. A target command is selected from queued host access commands. A free command is selected that can be executed during a time required for a seek fro...