US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on Sept. 1 for "Energy-per-processing event estimates based on total power consumption measurements within a data storage device" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,550, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Energy-per-processing event estimates based on total power consumption measurements within a data storage device" was invented by Yoseph Hassan (Nechusha, Israel), Ariel Navon (Revava, Israel), Eran Sharon (Rishon Lezion, Israel) and Shay Benisty (Beer Sheva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for energy management in data storage devices are provided. One such data storage device (DSD) includes a non-volatile memory (NVM), a set of hardware processing engines, and a power sensor to detect a total power consumption ...