ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,504, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Burst pattern track-to-track phase adjustment in a data storage device" was invented by Guoxiao Guo (Irvine, Calif.), Tianyu Jiang (San Jose, Calif.), Charles A. Park (Aromas, Calif.) and Scott A. Ottele (Longmont, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example storage medium servo patterns, data storage devices, and methods to provide position error burst pattern track-to-track phase adjustment relative to other servo data in the servo sector are described. The data storage device may include storage media, such as magnetic disks, having s...