Patents Assigned to Seagate Technologies LLC
  • Data storage retainer systems, methods, and devices
    Patent number: 11304328
    Abstract: A system includes an enclosure with a first side wall, a second side wall, and a first wall assembly. The first wall assembly extends between the first side wall and the second side wall and includes a first shaft-holding portion, a first plurality of latch assemblies having a first latch end and a first pivot end, and a first shaft that extends within the first shaft-holding portion and that is coupled to the first plurality of latch assemblies at respective first pivot ends of the first plurality of latch assemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Joseph P. Manes, Angel Castillo de la Cruz
  • Data storage devices, and related components and methods of making
    Patent number: 11302364
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a data storage device interior components and/or data storage device housing components that include one or more solid-state deposition layers, and related methods of applying solid-state material to said components via solid-state deposition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Jerome Coffey, Sam Severson, David Lapp
  • SELECTIVELY ACTIVATING MICROACTUATORS ON A HEAD GIMBAL ASSEMBLY
    Publication number: 20220108717
    Abstract: A head stack assembly for a hard disk drive includes a head gimbal assembly. The head gimbal assembly includes a slider, a plurality of microactuators, and a microactuator controller. The slider includes active components which are configured to perform drive operations in response to receiving control signals from a drive controller. The microactuators are configured to adjust the position of the slider relative to a magnetic disk during drive operations. The microactuator controller is configured to selectively couple the microactuators to a microactuator power source based on the control signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Applicant: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Hassene Atitallah, Razman Zambri
  • Data storage system with late read buffer assignment after arrival of data in cache
    Patent number: 11294572
    Abstract: A data storage system may have a number of data storage devices that each have a non-volatile memory connected to different first and second memory buffers. A data storage device can consist of a non-volatile memory where a data sector is stored. A network controller can consist of a buffer module connected to a first memory buffer and a second memory buffer that receives a data read request from the host for the data sector and evaluates the first and second memory buffers as a destination for the data sector after the data sector arrives at the buffer module. The buffer module may choose the first memory buffer and store the data sector in the first memory buffer prior to providing the data sector to the host to satisfy the data read request from the first memory buffer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Seagate Technology, LLC
    Inventor: Thomas V. Spencer
  • Cartridge-external preamplifier for read/write control of media library
    Patent number: 11294593
    Abstract: A storage system includes a media player including a preamplifier that is adapted to provide data access to a storage cartridge lacking an independent read/write preamplifier. The media player couples to the storage cartridges across an interconnect, and the storage cartridge is adapted to perform data access operations responsive to signals received from the media player through the interconnect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventors: Riyan Alex Mendonsa, Jon D Trantham, Peng Peng, Brett R. Herdendorf, Krishnan Subramanian
  • Trusted listening
    Patent number: 11295758
    Abstract: Devices and methods are disclosed for trusted listening. In some examples, an apparatus can include an audio receiving device having a microphone configured to capture sound and produce an audio signal, a processing unit configured to add a trusted signature to the audio signal, and an output configured to provide the audio signal. Further, a method of trusted listening can receive a first audio signal representing a real-time sound, generate a trusted signature in an audible format, and produce a second audio signal including the trusted signature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Kevin Arthur Gomez, Eric James Dahlberg, Adam Robert Bush
  • Storage medium including computing capability for authentication
    Patent number: 11296894
    Abstract: A method includes generating a private key associated with a distributed ledger. The private key is stored on a secure memory. A storage device is manufactured and includes an onboard computing device having the secure memory integrated therein. The onboard computing device is configured to sign one or more ledger operations with the private key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Simon Thavatchai Phatigaraphong, Rupasree Roy, Manuel Alexander Offenberg
  • System and method for managing off-track read retry
    Patent number: 11295777
    Abstract: The technology disclosed herein pertains to a system and method for managing off-track retry. An implementation of a method of determining offset direction for read off-track retry includes storing analog to digital converter (ADC) values of data read from a data sector by a data reader in a read channel buffer, calculating an indicator value of the distribution of the ADC values, determining an amount of offset for the data reader based on the indicator value, and moving the data reader by the amount of offset before performing a read retry operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventors: Xiong Liu, Quan Li
  • Storage device with configurable neural networks
    Patent number: 11295202
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises a mass storage unit and a plurality of circuit modules including a machine learning module, a programmable state machine module, and input/output interfaces. Switching circuitry is configured to selectively couple the circuit modules. Configuration circuitry is configured to access configuration data from the mass storage unit and to operate the switching circuitry to connect the circuit modules according to the configuration data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Jon Trantham, Kevin Arthur Gomez, Frank Dropps, Antoine Khoueir, Scott Younger
  • Resource allocation for multi-actuator storage device
    Patent number: 11295778
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for resource allocation for multi-actuator systems. In some examples, a data storage device can include two or more independently moveable voice coil motor (VCM) actuators where the resources of the system to operate the VCM actuators are divided. The disclosure here describes methods to allocate or re-allocate the divided resources, such as unused resources, to a VCM actuator that has a need for more resources. The methods and systems herein can also be applied to other actuator systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Thaik Thaik Aung, Xin Li, Jeetandra Kella, Wajid Ali, Jun Cai, JianZhong Zhang
  • Automated detection of artifacts in scan image
    Patent number: 11288809
    Abstract: A method of analyzing an atomic force microscope image includes receiving data related to an atomic force microscope image, where the data includes at least a first channel of data and a second channel of data relating to a first and second image data type. The method also includes identifying at least a first location of high contrast within the image using the first image data type using edge detection and identifying a first artifact within the image based on the identified first location of high contrast. The method also includes accessing the second image data type corresponding to the identified first location of the first artifact and determining a type of the first artifact by comparing the first image data type with the second image data type relating to the identified location of the first artifact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Zhiyu Chen, Ramprasath A. Prakash
  • Raid performance by offloading tasks to expanders
    Patent number: 11287983
    Abstract: A RAID storage management system includes a plurality of RAID storage devices and a controller configured to manage the plurality of RAID storage devices. The RAID storage management system also includes at least one expander operatively connected to the controller and operatively connected to the plurality of RAID storage devices. The expander is configured to receive a request from the controller for a RAID operation. The expander is also configured to, upon receiving the request, operate to assist the controller in performing the requested RAID operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Indrajit Zagade, Vishal Thakkar, Prasad Ramchandra Kadam
  • Stress-reducing gimbal tethers
    Patent number: 11289120
    Abstract: A head gimbal assembly for supporting a disk drive includes a flexure, a slider, a load beam and a gimbal affixed to the load beam. The flexure includes a first end extending along the load beam through a center region of a longitudinal axis of the head gimbal assembly and second end that includes a plurality of bond pads electrically coupled to the slider. The gimbal includes a detab, a connector region, a stator region and a central tongue region. The gimbal includes a gimbal tether configured to reduce stress on a first portion of the gimbal by coupling the first portion of the gimbal to a second portion of the gimbal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventor: Mark Pallay
  • Notched leading-edge shield for assisted magnetic recording head
    Patent number: 11289119
    Abstract: A recording head has a near-field transducer proximate a media-facing surface of the recording head. A write pole has a leading edge proximate to and facing the near-field transducer at the media-facing surface. A magnetic shield faces the leading edge of the write pole at the media-facing surface and is magnetically coupled to the write pole. The magnetic shield has a notch centered over the near-field transducer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Mourad Benakli, Kirill Alexander Rivkin, Hua Zhou, Martin Giles Blaber, TaeWoo Lee, Michael Allen Seigler, Huaqing Yin
  • Calibration of multi-stage servo system
    Patent number: 11289122
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for calibrating actuators in a multi-stage servo system. In certain embodiments, a method may comprise performing a calibration process on a multi-stage actuated servo system, including simultaneously injecting voltage injections into multiple microactuators of the servo system, measuring a resulting position error signal (PES), and determining gain settings for each of the multiple microactuators based on the PES. Multiple microactuators can therefore be calibrated during a single-injection calibration operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventor: XingHui Huang
  • Non-local spin valve sensor for high linear density
    Patent number: 11282538
    Abstract: A non-local spin valve (NLSV) sensor includes a bearing surface and a detector located proximate to the bearing surface. The NLSV sensor also includes a channel layer located behind the detector relative to the bearing surface, and in a substantially same plane as the detector. The channel layer has a front end that is proximate to the detector and a rear end that is distal to the detector. The NLSV sensor further includes first and second spin injectors, with the first spin injector located proximate to the rear end of the channel layer and positioned above the channel layer, and the second spin injector located proximate the rear end of the channel layer and positioned below the channel layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventor: Mark Thomas Kief
  • Adaptive manufacturing systems, methods, and devices such as hard disk drives
    Patent number: 11281184
    Abstract: An apparatus such as a hard disk drive includes a base deck, which includes a base member and sidewalls extending from the base member. The base member and the sidewalls both include a non-metallic material and a metallic stiffening material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Riyan Alex Mendonsa, Brett R. Herdendorf, Anil J. Reddy, Iraj Jabbari
  • Underwater imaging system with multiple connected autonomous underwater vehicles
    Patent number: 11280905
    Abstract: A method of stereoscopic mapping an underwater location includes determining a relative position and relative distance between two separate sensors on separate underwater platforms. Each of the two separate sensors scans a same underwater feature from its respective determined relative position. A stereoscopic image of the underwater feature is created from the two scanned images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventors: Charles Donly, Jon Trantham
  • Uniform laser direct writing for waveguides
    Patent number: 11280962
    Abstract: A waveguide includes a segment with a substantially uniform cure profile and related methods and systems for making and using the same. The waveguide is formed by modifying a laser beam used to write the waveguide to provide a substantially uniform cure profile in the waveguide. A marker characteristic of laser writing may be present in the waveguide. A method or system modifies an intensity profile or a shape profile of a laser beam to proactively compensate for exposure convolution based on the characteristics of the laser beam spot profile. A convolution compensator is positioned in the path of the laser beam to modify the beam spot profile during writing to form the one or more segments of the waveguide in a photo-curable layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventor: Richard C. A. Pitwon
  • Media read cache
    Patent number: 11275684
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for employing a media read cache in a storage device. In certain embodiments, an, an apparatus may comprise a data storage drive including a volatile read cache, and a disc memory including a primary data storage region of the storage device configured for long-term storage of data via persistent logical block address to physical block address mapping, and a media read cache region configured to store a copy of data from the volatile read cache. The data storage drive may be configured to perform a read operation including: retrieve read data from the volatile read cache based on determining that the read data is available in the volatile read cache, and retrieve the read data from the media read cache based on determining that the read data is not available in the volatile read cache and is available in the media read cache.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Raye A. Sosseh, Brian T. Edgar, Mark A. Gaertner