US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on May 20 for "Magnetic recording medium with magnesium-titanium oxide (MTO) layer formed using pulsed direct current sputter deposition" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,056, issued on May 20, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Magnetic recording medium with magnesium-titanium oxide (MTO) layer formed using pulsed direct current sputter deposition" was invented by Hoan Cong Ho (San Jose, Calif.), Paul Christopher Dorsey (Los Altos, Calif.), Tomoko Seki (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Pierre-Olivier Jubert (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various apparatuses, systems, methods, and media are disclosed to provide a heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) medium that has a magnetic recording layer on a MgO-TiO (MTO) underlayer, where the MTO underlayer is forme...