US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on March 11 for "Magnetic recording devices having external alternating current sources" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,358, issued on March 11, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Magnetic recording devices having external alternating current sources" was invented by Muhammad Asif Bashir (San Jose, Calif.), Petrus Antonius Van Der Heijden (Cupertino, Calif.), James Terrence Olson (San Jose, Calif.), Alexander Goncharov (Morgan Hill, Calif.), Zhigang Bai (Fremont, Calif.) and Yunfei Ding (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to a magnetic recording head assembly that includes an external alternating current (AC) source. A magnetic recording head of the mag...