US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on April 21 for "Fast initialization of media after logical block address (LBA) remapping operation" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,129, issued on April 21, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Fast initialization of media after logical block address (LBA) remapping operation" was invented by Andrew Larson (Rochester, Minn.) and Shad Thorstenson (Rochester, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device comprises recording heads and magnetic recording media. An initialization process is performed following a logical block address (LBA) remapping operation that remaps LBAs to physical locations on the media. The initialization process comprises initializing a write target LBA in response to a write command by writing ...