US Patent Issued to Seagate Technology on Jan. 20 for "Heat-assisted magnetic recording hard disk drive with a thermally processed top cover" (American, Thai, Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,090, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Seagate Technology LLC (Fremont, Calif.).

"Heat-assisted magnetic recording hard disk drive with a thermally processed top cover" was invented by Daniel Raymond Stevens (Longmont, Colo.), Paul Sheldon Tyler (Apple Valley, Minn.), Michael Yi Zhao Yao (Singapore), Nipata Nonphonkrang (Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand), Jeffrey James Croxall (Longmont, Colo.), Nuttawan Danvivatanaporn (Bangkok) and Sonia Marrero (Longmont, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hard disk drive includes a heat-assisted magnetic recording head and an enclosure. The enclosure is configured to contain the heat-assisted mag...