US Patent Issued to SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY on Feb. 17 for "Multi-actuator device with shared read channel" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,411, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC (Fremont, Calif.).

"Multi-actuator device with shared read channel" was invented by Brian T. Edgar (Shakopee, Minn.) and Raye A. Sosseh (Edina, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-actuator storage device includes a first actuator supporting a first read element coupled to a shared read channel, a second actuator supporting a second read element coupled to the shared read channel, and a job scheduler that employs a lowest-access time selection methodology when selecting each next job to schedule on the first actuator. When the lowest-access-time methodology result...