US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on Sept. 9 for "Active humidity control using chemical mixtures in data storage devices" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,601, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Active humidity control using chemical mixtures in data storage devices" was invented by Qing Dai (San Jose, Calif.), Ruihua Li (Cupertino, Calif.), Tan Trinh (San Jose, Calif.) and Yuichi Aoki (Fujisawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of adjusting a humidity within an interior of an enclosure of a data storage device comprises detecting a trigger condition, and, in response to detecting the trigger condition, mixing together two or more chemicals or combinations of chemicals situated within the interior of the enclosure of ...