ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,124, issued on June 17, was assigned to NHK SPRING Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Flexure of disk drive suspension and disk drive suspension" was invented by Yukie Yamada (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flexure of a disk drive suspension includes a metal base, and a wiring portion provided along the metal base. The wiring portion includes a base insulating layer, a conductor layer overlapping with the base insulating layer, and a cover insulating layer overlapping with the conductor layer, and the metal base includes a pair of first portions having side surfaces opposed to each other and a second portion overlapping w...