US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on March 11 for "Multi-layer NFT for HAMR with a thermal shunt connecting the metal layers" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,355, issued on March 11, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Multi-layer NFT for HAMR with a thermal shunt connecting the metal layers" was invented by Takuya Matsumoto (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to a magnetic recording head for a magnetic media drive. The magnetic recording head comprises a main pole, a waveguide disposed adjacent to the main pole, a thermal shunt disposed between the main pole and the waveguide, the thermal shunt being recessed from a media facing surface (MFS), and a near field transducer (NFT) coupled between the ma...