US Patent Issued to WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES on Sept. 29 for "Multi-access data storage device with equalization of data rate" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,507, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Multi-access data storage device with equalization of data rate" was invented by Andrew Larson (Rochester, Minn.), David R. Hall (Rochester, Minn.), Ali Khalili (Minneapolis) and Shad H Thorstenson (Rochester, Minn.).

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 perform a read operation by: concurrently reading first data from a first band of tracks on one or more disk surfaces and second data from a second band of tracks ...