US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on Sept. 16 for "Multilayer structures for magnetic recording devices to facilitate targeted magnetic switching and low coercivity" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,782, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Multilayer structures for magnetic recording devices to facilitate targeted magnetic switching and low coercivity" was invented by Ning Shi (San Jose, Calif.), Brian R. York (San Jose, Calif.), Susumu Okamura (San Jose, Calif.) and Suping Song (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to magnetic recording heads (such as write heads of data storage devices) that include multilayer structures to facilitate targeted switching and relatively low coercivity. In one or more embodiments, ...