US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics International on July 28 for "Method of operating hard disk drive, corresponding control circuit, hard disk drive and processing device" (Italian, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,903, issued on July 28, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).

"Method of operating hard disk drive, corresponding control circuit, hard disk drive and processing device" was invented by Michele Boscolo Berto (Milan), Maurizio Ricci (Bergamo, Italy), Marco Ferrari (Voghera, Italy), Diego Tognoli (Tokyo) and Giuseppe Maiocchi (Villa Guardia, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a voice coil motor (VCM) in a hard disk drive during a retract phase, wherein read-and-write heads of the hard disk drive are retracted by the VCM from a disk surface towards an end-of-travel parking condition ...