ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,120, issued on May 12, was assigned to Seagate Technology LLC (Fremont, Calif.).

"Systems, methods, and devices for monitoring a gaseous oxidizing agent in a data storage device, and related systems, methods, and devices" was invented by Patrick M. Thomas (Lyons, Colo.), Bijoyendra Nath (Minneapolis), Roger J. Kassab (Aldie, Va.), Scott R. Warmka (Burnsville, Minn.), Mark A. Gaertner (Minneapolis) and Abbas Ali (Prior Lake, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to devices, circuits, and methods of determining power consumption in an electronic device (e.g., HDD) so that the determined power consumption ca...