Agere (LSI/Avago) Assigned Patent

Agere Systems, Inc., Allentown, PA, has been assigned a patent (8,854,758) developed by two co-inventors for a “track defect map for a disk drive storage system.”

The co-inventors are Walter Allen, Longmont, CO, and Robert Alan Reid, Superior, CO.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method and apparatus for storing a disk drive media defect table or list. Defect table entries for a subject disk track are stored on the subject track and retrieved for determining defective sectors only when the subject track is accessed for a data read or write operation.“

The patent application was filed on May 19, 2006 (11/419,279).