US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies, Tokyo Institute of Technology on Sept. 9 for "Non-localized spin valve multi-free-layer reader hybridized with spin orbit torque layers" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,597, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.) and Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo).

"Non-localized spin valve multi-free-layer reader hybridized with spin orbit torque layers" was invented by Quang Le (San Jose, Calif.), Xiaoyong Liu (San Jose, Calif.), Brian R. York (San Jose, Calif.), Cherngye Hwang (San Jose, Calif.), Son T. Le (San Jose, Calif.), Hisashi Takano (Fujisawa, Japan), Fan Tuo (Fujisawa, Japan), Hassan Osman (San Jose, Calif.) and Nam Hai Pham (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to a magnetic recording head comprising a read...