US Patent Issued to Seagate Technology on Jan. 13 for "Method for making a magnetic recording head with a piezoelectric actuator for controlling head-media spacing" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,258, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Seagate Technology LLC (Fremont, Calif.).

"Method for making a magnetic recording head with a piezoelectric actuator for controlling head-media spacing" was invented by Glen Cornelius Masterson (Londonderry, Great Britain), Jennifer Carville (Portstewart, Great Britain) and Paula Frances McElhinney (Londonderry, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic recording head includes a piezoelectric actuator for controlling head-media spacing. A method for making the magnetic recording head including a piezoelectric actuator includes the steps of: providing a source wafer on which to fab...