US Patent Issued to Headway Technologies on Oct. 6 for "Hard disk drive and write heads having refilled structures at side edges of an assist device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,755, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Headway Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Hard disk drive and write heads having refilled structures at side edges of an assist device" was invented by Wenyu Chen (San Jose, Calif.), Minghui Yu (Fremont, Calif.), Yewhee Chye (Hayward, Calif.), Shohei Kawasaki (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Tetsuya Roppongi (San Jose, Calif.), Shehrin Sayed (Fremont, Calif.), Kazuki Sato (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Yuhui Tang (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present embodiments relate to write head designs with metal layers at sides of an assist device to improve heat conductance so that the temperature...