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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 26, 2018
Applicant:
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Pankaj Mehra, San Jose, CA (US);
Bernd Lamberts, San Jose, CA (US);
Sridhar Chatradhi, San Jose, CA (US);
Jordan A. Katine, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G11B 5/66 (2006.01); G11B 5/74 (2006.01); G11B 5/82 (2006.01); G11B 5/49 (2006.01); G11B 5/48 (2006.01); G11B 5/667 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/66 (2013.01); G11B 5/4886 (2013.01); G11B 5/4976 (2013.01); G11B 5/746 (2013.01); G11B 5/82 (2013.01); G11B 5/667 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed herein are methods of using embedded disconnected circuits (EDC) in magnetic storage media to assist in reading data from and writing data to the magnetic storage media. A wireless activation signal is used to activate an EDC in a magnetic storage media. Once activated, the EDC may assist to record data in and/or read data from one or more memory locations of the magnetic storage media.