US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on May 27 for "Magnetic write transducer with variable write gap length" (Swiss, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,537, issued on May 27, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Magnetic write transducer with variable write gap length" was invented by Hugo E. Rothuizen (Oberrieden, Switzerland), Mark Alfred Lantz (Adliswil, Switzerland), Jason Liang (Campbell, Calif.) and Icko E. T. Iben (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an approach to improve write transducers a write transducer for recording data on a magnetic media is disclosed. The write transducer comprises a first pole piece. The write transducer further comprises a second pole piece. The first pole piece and the second pole piece are arra...