US Patent Issued to Headway Technologies on April 14 for "Perpendicular magnetic recording head equipping a spin torque oscillator element with an electric current in side gaps" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,103, issued on April 14, was assigned to Headway Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Perpendicular magnetic recording head equipping a spin torque oscillator element with an electric current in side gaps" was invented by Kei Hirata (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Kowang Liu (Fremont, Calif.), Yue Liu (Fremont, Calif.), Jiun-Ting Lee (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Weihao Xu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present embodiments relate to a perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) write head with an STO element and configured to direct an electric current between elements of the write head. A first example embodiment describes a perp...