US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on July 28 for "Data storage device with adaptive control of current balancer to reduce power consumption" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,724, issued on July 28, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Data storage device with adaptive control of current balancer to reduce power consumption" was invented by Brian Johnson (Laguna Hills, Calif.) and Peng Huang (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device comprises a disk; a head configured to read data from and write data to the disk; and a current balancer configured to receive a first voltage supply having a load limit and to receive a second voltage supply. The current balancer is further configured, to reduce power consumption, to sample a first current drawn fro...