US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on Oct. 14 for "Magnetic recording head with current path between trailing shield and leading shield for improved resistance" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,434, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Magnetic recording head with current path between trailing shield and leading shield for improved resistance" was invented by Muhammad Asif Bashir (San Jose, Calif.), Alexander Goncharov (Morgan Hill, Calif.), Zhigang Bai (San Jose, Calif.) and Yunfei Ding (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to a magnetic recording head for magnetic media, such as a magnetic media drive. The head has a main pole, trailing shield, leading shield, first side shield, and second side shield. One side shield i...