US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on May 20 for "Produce thinner DTS and adjustable capacitance for TDMR heads" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,052, issued on May 20, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Produce thinner DTS and adjustable capacitance for TDMR heads" was invented by Fang Chen (Livermore, Calif.), Chih-Ching Hu (Pleasanton, Calif.), Yung-Hung Wang (San Jose, Calif.), Chen-Jung Chien (Mountain View, Calif.), Ming Mao (Dublin, Calif.) and Ming Jiang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to a dual free layer two dimensional magnetic recording read head. The read head comprises a first lower shield, a first sensor disposed over the first lower shield, a first upper shield dispose...