US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on March 17 for "Channel circuit with trained neural network noise mixture estimator" (California, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,017, issued on March 17, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Channel circuit with trained neural network noise mixture estimator" was invented by Minghai Qin (Fremont, Calif.), Chao Sun (San Jose, Calif.), Dejan Vucinic (San Jose, Calif.), Henry Yip (Bellflower, Calif.), Jonas Goode (Lake Forest, Calif.), Richard Galbraith (Rochester, Minn.) and Iouri Oboukhov (Rochester, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example channel circuits, data storage devices, and methods for using a trained neural network to estimate the noise mixture in a read signal are described. Samples are determined from a digita...