US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on Feb. 10 for "Magnetic recording apparatus comprising disk with reduced thickness and reduced disk flatness" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,595, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Magnetic recording apparatus comprising disk with reduced thickness and reduced disk flatness" was invented by Shoji Suzuki (San Jose, Calif.) and John Michael Bianchini (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disk for a magnetic recording apparatus. The disk includes a substrate comprising a first surface and a second surface, wherein the substrate has a substrate thickness. The disk includes a first coating layer disposed over the first surface of the substrate, wherein the first coating layer has a first coating layer thickne...