ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,688, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Embedded electromagnetic interference shield" was invented by Jason Liang (Campbell, Calif.), Icko E. T. Iben (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Hoodin Hamidi (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are devices for use in a magnetic tape head, a magnetic tape head, and methods for forming the same. A device includes a chiplet including at least one of a reader and a writer. The device also includes an electromagnetic interference (EMI) shield embedded in the chiplet. The EMI shield is configured to inhibit electromagnetic interference...