ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,123, issued on June 17, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Spin-orbit torque SOT reader with recessed spin hall effect layer" was invented by Quang Le (San Jose, Calif.), Xiaoyong Liu (San Jose, Calif.), Fan Tuo (Fujisawa, Japan), Brian R. York (San Jose, Calif.), Cherngye Hwang (San Jose, Calif.) and Hisashi Takano (Fujisawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to a magnetic recording head comprising one or more spin-orbit torque (SOT) devices, the SOT devices each comprising a bismuth antimony (BiSb) layer. The magnetic recording head comprises a SOT devi...