ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,750, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SAE Magnetics (H.K.) Ltd. (Shatin, Hong Kong) and Headway Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"DFH heater design" was invented by Siu Yin Ngan (San Jose, Calif.), Kowang Liu (Fremont, Calif.) and Ellis Cha (San Ramon, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A PMR read/write transducer head configured for heat assisted recording (HAMR) includes thermally active nano-bumper pads formed from a thermally active bulge that protrudes proximally to each side of a read element to provide enhanced touchdown (TD) protection to the transducer head element where it emerges adjacent to the HAMR apparatus. T...