Buffalo Assigned Patent

Buffalo, Inc., Nagoya-shi, Japan, has been assigned a patent (10,146,481) developed by Ito, Tsukasa, Tanaka, Tsubasa, and Ishii, Suguru, Nagoya, Japan, for a “magnetic disk device capable of predicting the probability of failure.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “There is provided a magnetic disk device including a magnetic disk, and circuitry configured to receive a control command for instructing to write data in the magnetic disk or to rear the data from the magnetic disk, perform a data access process of writing the data in the magnetic disk or reading the data from the magnetic disk according to the received control command, specify a data amount of object data of the data access process, calculate a cumulative value of the data amount of the object data from a start of an operation, and perform notification when the cumulative value is equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold.”

The patent application was filed on August 3, 2017 (15/667,714).