US Patent Issued to Headway Technologies on Aug. 11 for "Perpendicular magnetic recording writer with tunable pole side bridge design" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,113, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Headway Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Perpendicular magnetic recording writer with tunable pole side bridge design" was invented by Yue Liu (Fremont, Calif.), Moris Musa Dovek (San Jose, Calif.) and Yan Wu (Cupertino, 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 a Tunable Pole Protrusion or Tunable Pole Performance (TPP) side bridge design. A PMR write head can include a main pole including a tip portion configured to be disposed at an air-bearing surface (ABS) and configured to interact with a magnetic...