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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 12, 2019
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Antony Ian Taylor Rowstron, Cambridge, GB;
Ioan Alexandru Stefanovici, Cambridge, GB;
Aaron William Ogus, Woodinville, WA (US);
Douglas Wayne Phillips, Woodinville, WA (US);
Richard John Black, Cambridge, GB;
Austin Nicholas Donnelly, Cambridge, GB;
Alexander Lloyd Gaunt, Cambridge, GB;
Andreas Georgiou, Cambridge, GB;
Ariel Gomez Diaz, Cambridge, GB;
Serguei Anatolievitch Legtchenko, Cambridge, GB;
Reinhard Sebastian Bernhard Nowozin, Cambridge, GB;
Benn Charles Thomsen, London, GB;
Hugh David Paul Williams, Cambridge, GB;
David Lara Saucedo, London, GB;
Patrick Neil Anderson, Cambridge, GB;
Andromachi Chatzieleftheriou, Cambridge, GB;
John Christopher Dainty, Galway, IE;
James Hilton Clegg, Cambridge, GB;
Raluca Andreea Diaconu, Cambridge, GB;
Rokas Drevinskas, Cambridge, GB;
Mengyang Yang, Cambridge, GB;
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A data-storage system comprises a head receiver configured to variably receive up to a number M of write heads. The data-storage system also includes an installed number N of write heads arranged in the head receiver, a substrate receiver configured to receive one or more data-storage substrates, and a positioner machine configured to adjust a relative placement of each of the M write heads with respect to at least one of the one or more data-storage substrates.