US Patent Issued to WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES on Sept. 30 for "Data storage device with track pitch determination for mitigating effects of servo pattern distortion" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,161, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Data storage device with track pitch determination for mitigating effects of servo pattern distortion" was invented by Hideki Zaitsu (Fujisawa, Japan), So Ogiwara (Fujisawa, Japan), Yoshio Soyama (Fujisawa, Japan), Kei Yasuna (Fujisawa, Japan) and Shuji Nishida (Fujisawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various illustrative aspects are directed to a data storage device, method, and one or more processing devices that are configured to: determine an initial track pitch based on a performance metric determined for the head; determine a...