Canon Assigned Patent

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, Japan, has been assigned a patent (10,748,574) developed by Tabuchi, Hidetaka, Abiko, Japan, for “apparatus and method for retracting the magnetic head to a home position after a predetermined time period.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”An information processing apparatus includes a hard disk drive including a disk configured to store data therein and a head configured to access the disk and a control unit. The control unit causes the head to be retracted to a home position after a predetermined time period, based on an operation mode, has passed after performing control to cause the head to access the disk.”

The patent application was filed on May 6, 2019 (16/404,489).