US Patent Issued to Headway Technologies on Oct. 7 for "Electroplating of high damping material for trailing shield in a perpendicular magnetic recording writer" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,778, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Headway Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Electroplating of high damping material for trailing shield in a perpendicular magnetic recording writer" was invented by Xiaomin Liu (Fremont, Calif.), Wenjie Chen (Cupertino, Calif.), Yue Liu (Fremont, Calif.), Weihao Xu (San Jose, Calif.), Yuhui Tang (Milpitas, Calif.) and Feiyue Li (Newark, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present embodiments relate to a PMR write head with a trailing shield that comprises a FeCoNiM composition. The FeCoNiM composition can be formed via an electroplating process by adding Fe2+, Co2+, Ni2+ and a transitio...