US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on Aug. 11 for "Increased VCM current resolution during track follow to decrease NRRO" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,116, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc..

"Increased VCM current resolution during track follow to decrease NRRO" was invented by Brian Johnson (Laguna Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device may include one or more disks; a voice coil motor (VCM) driver for driving a VCM and having a programmable transconductance (Gm); an actuator arm assembly comprising one or more disk heads and the VCM, wherein the VCM is configured to operate in a first mode and a second mode; and one or more processing devices configured to control the actuator arm assembly to actuate the disk heads ov...