US Patent Issued to Seagate Technology on April 21 for "Migration of data in response to write-failure of disk drive head" (Colorado, California, Minnesota, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,287, issued on April 21, was assigned to Seagate Technology LLC (Fremont, Calif.).

"Migration of data in response to write-failure of disk drive head" was invented by Mohamad El-Batal (Superior, Colo.), Curtis Stevens (Irvine, Calif.), David Allen (Monument, Colo.), Jon D. Trantham (Chanhassen, Minn.), Ian Robert Davies (Longmont, Colo.) and Mark A. Gaertner (Fort Myers, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A failure of a head is detected, the head reading from and writing to an affected surface of a disk of a disk drive. The failure prevents the head from writing to the affected surface but does not prevent the head from reading fro...