US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on June 24 for "Hard disk drive slider coating for suspension mechanical improvement" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,826, issued on June 24, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Hard disk drive slider coating for suspension mechanical improvement" was invented by Kia Moh Teo (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly configured for a hard disk drive includes a head slider having a suspension face and a recording medium face opposing the suspension face, where the slider houses a read-write transducer at or near a trailing edge (TE) face opposing a LE face, and a suspension assembly comprising a flexure having a standoff structure extending from a main planar body of the flexure, to which the suspe...