US Patent Issued to WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES on Sept. 15 for "Data storage device with assistive bursts in servo sectors" (California, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,294, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Data storage device with assistive bursts in servo sectors" was invented by Guoxiao Guo (Irvine, Calif.), Charles A. Park (Aromas, Calif.), Yun Hong (San Jose, Calif.), Scott A. Ottele (Longmont, Colo.), Gary Herbst (San Jose, Calif.) and Satoshi Yamamoto (Hollister, 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: during a read operation, open a servo gate in the selected head in order to read the first servo bursts...