US Patent Issued to WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES on July 7 for "Data storage device with spiral write mode hop mitigation" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,167, issued on July 7, was assigned to WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Data storage device with spiral write mode hop mitigation" was invented by Tomoo Ozaki (Fujisawa, Japan), Kei Yasuna (Fujisawa, Japan) and Guoxiao Guo (Irvine, 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: apply a first set of settings to the assistive energy emitter in association with writing a first spiral to the disk surface; and apply a second set of settings to the assistive energy emitter in association with wr...