US Patent Issued to Seagate Technology on July 29 for "Heat-assisted magnetic recording head with a solid immersion mirror" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,357, issued on July 29, was assigned to Seagate Technology LLC (Fremont, Calif.).

"Heat-assisted magnetic recording head with a solid immersion mirror" was invented by Nan Zhou (Chanhassen, Minn.), Michael A. Seigler (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Chubing Peng (Eden Prairie, Minn.) and YongJun Zhao (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat-assisted magnetic recording head includes a near-field transducer, a waveguide, and a solid immersion mirror. The near-field transducer is configured to focus and emit an optical near-field. The waveguide is configured to receive electromagnetic radiation and propagate the electromagnetic ...