US Patent Issued to WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES on July 21 for "Data storage device with real time fly height predictor for different servo seek sequences and other drive operations" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,872, issued on July 21, was assigned to WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Data storage device with real time fly height predictor for different servo seek sequences and other drive operations" was invented by Sandy Xianghui Xiao (San Diego) and Noureddine Kermiche (Dana Point, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various illustrative aspects are directed to a data storage device, method, and one or more processing devices that are configured to: store heater power history data defining historic levels of heater power applied to the heater in the selected head; based on the heater power history data, select one o...