US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on Dec. 23 for "Vertical cavity surface emitting laser and head gimbal assembly" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,321, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Vertical cavity surface emitting laser and head gimbal assembly" was invented by Takuya Matsumoto (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to a vertical cavity surface emitting laser, a head gimbal assembly for mounting a vertical cavity surface emitting laser, and devices incorporating such articles. In an embodiment, a vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) device is provided. The VCSEL device includes a chip for mounting on a slider and two laser diode electrodes. The...