US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on June 24 for "Lubricants and methods to determine dewetting thickness thereof" (California, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,829, issued on June 24, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Lubricants and methods to determine dewetting thickness thereof" was invented by Bala Krishna Pathem (Fremont, Calif.), Nicholas Ryan Conley (Apex, N.C.) and Bruno Jean Marchon (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lubricant including a plurality of segments including a divalent center segment and two sidechain segments, each including a perfluoroalkyl ether moieties is provided in which a dewetting thickness of the lubricant may be determined based in-part on a segment weight average molecular weight of the segments. A magnet...