US Patent Issued to Seagate Technology on June 16 for "Methods for reducing time to resume data operations in spun down hard drives" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,967, issued on June 16, was assigned to Seagate Technology LLC (Fremont, Calif.).

"Methods for reducing time to resume data operations in spun down hard drives" was invented by Riyan Alex Mendonsa (Edina, Minn.), Jon D. Trantham (Chanhassen, Minn.), Joshua Ward Christensen (Savage, Minn.), Jack Vincent Anderson Jr. (Shakopee, Minn.) and Kenneth A. Haapala (Buffalo, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and methods for reducing the amount of time required before resuming full data operations after a hard disk drive has been spun down and/or placed in a standby mode. Such systems and methods may make use of thresho...