US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on Sept. 22 for "Data storage device with recording head failure prediction and mitigation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,055, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Data storage device with recording head failure prediction and mitigation" was invented by Bernhard E. Knigge (San Jose, Calif.), Bernd Lamberts (San Jose, Calif.), Tae Sik Kang (San Jose, Calif.) and Christopher D. Keener (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for predicting and mitigating recording head failure in a data storage device. Thermal condition parameters of recording heads are monitored during operation. The thermal condition parameters are analyzed to identify conditions indicating a likelihood of failure ...