US Patent Issued to Headway Technologies on Jan. 13 for "Optimizing a current distribution in write heads for efficient energy-assisted magnetic recording" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,255, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Headway Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Optimizing a current distribution in write heads for efficient energy-assisted magnetic recording" was invented by Shehrin Sayed (Fremont, Calif.), Wenyu Chen (San Jose, Calif.), Yue Liu (Fremont, Calif.), Kowang Liu (Fremont, Calif.), Tetsuya Roppongi (San Jose, Calif.), Haowen Ren (Fremont, Calif.), Yuhui Tang (Milpitas, Calif.), Moris Musa Dovek (San Jose, Calif.) and Wenjie Chen (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present embodiments can generally provide a magnetic write head structure with optimized gap current distribution ...