ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,900, issued on July 22, was assigned to Magnecomp Corp. (Murrieta, Calif.).
"Transitional load beam rail for hard disk drive suspensions" was invented by David Glaess (Bangkok), Kuen Chee Ee (Chino, Calif.) and Long Zhang (Winchester, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of a load beam are described herein that include a lifter tab extending towards a distal end, a dustpan defined by a dustpan forming line at a proximal end and the lifter tab at a distal end and a first and second plurality of rail sections separated by a longitudinal axis. The first and second plurality rail sections including a rear rail, an intermediate ...