Marvell Asia Issues Patent

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Patent Issued for Health management for magnetic storage media (USPTO 11450348): Marvell Asia PTE Ltd.
A method for managing health of magnetic storage media of a storage media drive, comprising: receiving a request to read a sector of the magnetic storage media that resides in a zone of the magnetic storage media, the zone comprising multiple sectors of the magnetic storage media; determining, with a read channel of the storage media drive, read metrics for the sector of the magnetic storage media that is read based on the request; accessing read metrics of the zone of the magnetic storage media, the read metrics of the zone including respective read metrics for the sector that is read and others of the multiple sectors of the zone of the magnetic storage media; updating the read metrics of the zone of the magnetic storage media based on the read metrics determined for the sector of the magnetic storage media to provide updated read metrics for the zone of the magnetic storage media, the updating of the read metrics of the zone comprising updating the respective read metrics of the sector that is read based on the read metrics determined for the sector; and determining, with a neural network, a health score for the zone of the magnetic storage media in which the sector resides based on the updated read metrics of the zone of the magnetic storage media.