US Patent Issued to Hewlett-Packard Development on Sept. 22 for "Sleep mode management of hard disk drive" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,147, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Sleep mode management of hard disk drive" was invented by Sanghyun Park (Seongnam Si, South Korea), Jungjin Park (Seongnam Si, South Korea) and Joonhyung Hwangbo (Seongnam Si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example image forming apparatus includes a hard disk unit including a head unit, and a controller. The controller is to obtain first time information corresponding to the image forming apparatus and usage time information of the image forming apparatus, obtain second time information corresponding to the head unit and driv...