US Patent Issued to Headway Technologies on March 31 for "Tapered bi-layer near field transducer for heat-assisted magnetic recording write heads" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,253, issued on March 31, was assigned to Headway Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Tapered bi-layer near field transducer for heat-assisted magnetic recording write heads" was invented by Weihao Xu (San Jose, Calif.) and Tobias Maletzky (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present embodiments relate to a heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) write head with a NFT bi-layer structure with a bottom taper, which can be applied to one or both layers of the two layers. A heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) write head can include a main pole including a tip portion configured to interact with a magnetic recording...