US Patent Issued to Headway Technologies on Aug. 25 for "Magneto-resistive reader utilizing read shields to maintain reference layer magnetization" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,839, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Headway Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Magneto-resistive reader utilizing read shields to maintain reference layer magnetization" was invented by Bernard Dieny (Lans en Vercors, France) and Bor-Yuan Jiang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present embodiments relate to magneto-resistive read heads that can utilize read shields to maintain a reference layer magnetization. A magneto-resistive head can include a first shield and a second shield disposed adjacent to the first shield, with a distance between the shields forming a read gap. The magneto-resistive head can als...