US Patent Issued to Seagate Technology on Oct. 14 for "Hard disk drive with a component that includes liquid crystal polymer" (Singaporean, American, Thai Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,435, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Seagate Technology LLC (Fremont, Calif.).

"Hard disk drive with a component that includes liquid crystal polymer" was invented by Daniel R. Stevens (Longmont, Colo.), Paul S. Tyler (Apple Valley, Minn.), Michael Yi Zhao Yao (Singapore), Wanvisa Rattanangam (Bangkok), Nipata Nonphonkrang (Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand), Tsuny Ming Boh (Singapore) and Kevin J. Kolb (Longmont, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat-assisted magnetic recording hard disk drive includes a heat-assisted magnetic recording head and a component. The heat-assisted magnetic recording head and the component are disposed...