US Patent Issued to WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES on Oct. 28 for "Data storage device with variable containers for logic blocks" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,699, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Data storage device with variable containers for logic blocks" was invented by Scott Burton (Westminster, Colo.).

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; a write mechanism configured to write data to disk surfaces of the one or more disks; and one or more processing devices, which are configured to: encode, based on a distributed sector encoding scheme, data into a plurality of logic blocks of data, wherein the logic blocks of data comprise the data to b...