US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on May 27 for "Heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) write head with enhanced stability and methods for making the same" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,539, issued on May 27, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) write head with enhanced stability and methods for making the same" was invented by Sung Hun Wee (Santa Clara, Calif.), Shawn Tanner (San Jose, Calif.), Hamid Balamane (Portola Valley, Calif.), Pradeep Senanayake (Fremont, Calif.) and Takuya Matsumoto (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) write head contains a main pole, a waveguide, and a near-field transducer containing an antenna disposed between the waveguide and the main pole. A first portion of...