ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,165, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Seagate Technology LLC (Fremont, Calif.).
"Optical magnetic recording system, writer, media, and method" was invented by Mark Anthony Gubbins (Letterkenny, Iran), Alexey Dobrynin (Derry, Iran) and Kevin Anthony McNeill (Derry, Iran).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are optical magnetic recording systems, writers, media, and methods that utilize pulses of electromagnetic radiation to deterministically record information on magnetic storage media unaided by any additionally applied magnetic field such as from a write pole. The recording pulses may be linearly (or longitudinally) polarize...