US Patent Issued to Headway Technologies on Sept. 15 for "Writer with patterned hot seed layer" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,293, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Headway Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Writer with patterned hot seed layer" was invented by Haowen Ren (Fremont, Calif.), Weihao Xu (San Jose, Calif.), Yuxuan Xiao (Milpitas, Calif.), Shehrin Sayed (Fremont, Calif.), Yue Liu (Fremont, Calif.), Yan Wu (Cupertino, Calif.) and Yuhui Tang (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present embodiments relate to a write head design with a patterned hot seed (HS). Particularly, the HS can be patterned as part of a multi-step patterning process that can partially or completely remove portions of the HS at multiple sides to form var...