[June 19, 2013] Seagate Technology Assigned Patent Tweet (Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) By Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- Seagate Technology, Cupertino, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,468,379) developed by Jon David Trantham, Chanhassen, Minn., for "systems, methods and devices for control and generation of programming voltages for solid-state data memory devices." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "In one embodiment, a solid-state drive contains a plurality of data memory devices requiring elevated voltages for erasure and programming operations. A common voltage regulator, external to the data memory devices, provides the elevated voltage, thereby reducing the overall power consumption of the data storage device." The patent application was filed on June 26, 2009 (12/492,951). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8,468,379.PN.&OS=PN/8,468,379&RS=PN/8,468,379 Written by Kusum Sangma; edited by Anand Kumar. KS0619AK0619-891362 (c) 2013 Targeted News Service [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]