US Patent Issued to WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES on March 31 for "Data storage device with pre-erase of metadata from non-volatile memory" (Indian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,396, issued on March 31, was assigned to WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Data storage device with pre-erase of metadata from non-volatile memory" was invented by Shubhi Khanna (Bangalore, India).

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: send a first command to a non-volatile memory in response to determining that a seek time associated with a seek operation exceeds a threshold; and send a second command to the non-volatile memory at or before an end of the seek operation, wherein the non-v...