US Patent Issued to Headway Technologies on Oct. 6 for "Write head designs with refill materials on a back edge of an assist device for improved write head reliability and performance" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,756, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Headway Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Write head designs with refill materials on a back edge of an assist device for improved write head reliability and performance" was invented by Wenyu Chen (San Jose, Calif.), Shohei Kawasaki (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Yewhee Chye (Hayward, Calif.), Minghui Yu (Fremont, Calif.), Kazuki Sato (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Tetsuya Roppongi (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present embodiments describe write head designs with structures adjacent to a back edge of an assist device. Refilled oxides with poor thermal conductivity can be changed to ma...