[May 23, 2013] Western Digital Technologies Assigned Patent for Hard Drive Assembly Tool Calibration Verification Tweet (Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) By Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 23 -- Western Digital Technologies, Irvine, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,447,551) developed by Tze Yang Ong, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, and Jit Han Tan, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, for a "hard drive assembly tool calibration verification." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "An assembly tool is provided. The assembly tool comprises a body and a gripper mount slidably mounted to the body with a first actuator. The first actuator is configured to slide the gripper mount from a first position to a second position along an axis. The assembly tool also comprises a gripper assembly slidably mounted to the gripper mount with a second actuator. The second actuator is configured to facilitate displacement of the gripper assembly with respect to the gripper mount along the axis. The assembly tool also comprises an encoder configured to indicate a displacement distance between an expected position and an actual position of the gripper assembly with respect to the gripper mount along the axis when the gripper mount is in the second position." The patent application was filed on June 30, 2010 (12/828,184). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,447,551&OS=8,447,551&RS=8,447,551 Written by Satyaban Rath; edited by Hemanta Panigrahi. SR0523HP0523-880259 (c) 2013 Targeted News Service [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]