US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on May 27 for "Magnetic recording head with assisting electric current in trailing shield" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,538, issued on May 27, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Magnetic recording head with assisting electric current in trailing shield" was invented by Alexander Goncharov (Morgan Hill, Calif.), Muhammad Asif Bashir (San Jose, Calif.), Petrus Antonius Van Der Heijden (Cupertino, Calif.), Yunfei Ding (Fremont, Calif.), Zhigang Bai (Fremont, Calif.) and James Terrence Olson (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is generally related to a magnetic recording device comprising a magnetic recording head having a first current flow in a cross-track direction through a traili...