US Patent Issued to Resonac Hard Disk on Jan. 20 for "Magnetic recording medium and magnetic storage apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,087, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Resonac Hard Disk Corp. (Chiba, Japan).

"Magnetic recording medium and magnetic storage apparatus" was invented by Yuki Sato (Chiba, Japan), Takayuki Fukushima (Chiba, Japan), Takeshi Sakamoto (Chiba, Japan), Hisato Shibata (Tokyo), Takehiro Yamaguchi (Chiba, Japan) and Masaru Tajima (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic recording medium includes a nonmagnetic substrate, an underlayer disposed above the nonmagnetic substrate, and a magnetic recording layer disposed above the underlayer. The magnetic recording layer includes a first magnetic layer disposed above the underlayer,...