US Patent Issued to Seagate Technology on Aug. 25 for "Early warning offtrack collision system for hard disk drives" (California, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,842, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Seagate Technology LLC (Fremont, Calif.).

"Early warning offtrack collision system for hard disk drives" was invented by Josiah Natan Wernow (San Diego), Joshua Ward Christensen (Savage, Minn.) and Brian Thomas Edgar (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are systems and methods during writing of data in hard disk drives in which adjacent track squeeze events are predicted by looking at the difference in position error signal (PES) between two tracks, one PES being a recorded value for data already written, and the other being a predicted value for an upcoming write. This approac...