US Patent Issued to Seagate Technology on April 29 for "Identifying heat assisted recording laser stability using ramped temperature calibration" (Colorado, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,574, issued on April 29, was assigned to Seagate Technology LLC (Fremont, Calif.).

"Identifying heat assisted recording laser stability using ramped temperature calibration" was invented by Sandeep Bhushan (Longmont, Colo.), Lewis Scott Kessinger Patterson (Glenn Dale, Md.), Phillip Kevin McGinnis (Longmont, Colo.) and Piengphen Swangsmutchai (Longmont, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for calibrating a hard drive having a heat-assisted magnetic recording head is provided. The method includes performing, across an increasing temperature ramp, a first set of write/read operations using the head, performing, across a decrea...