US Patent Issued to Seagate Technology on Dec. 2 for "Multi-revolution hard disk drives with reduced servo overhead" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,807, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Seagate Technology LLC (Fremont, Calif.).

"Multi-revolution hard disk drives with reduced servo overhead" was invented by Riyan Alex Mendonsa (Edina, Minn.), Joshua Ward Christensen (Savage, Minn.), Nathan Andrew Blilie (Elko New Market, Minn.), Patrick J. Korkowski (Shakopee, Minn.) and Jon D. Trantham (Chanhassen, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are hard disk drives (HDDs), and methods for use therewith, that utilize reduced overhead servo fields, thereby simplifying the servo system. Reduced overhead servo fields may be of particular use in HDDs that utilize multi-revolution sto...