US Patent Issued to Headway Technologies on Sept. 8 for "Magnetic flux guiding device with spin torque oscillator (STO) film having negative spin polarization layers in assisted writing application" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,605, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Headway Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Magnetic flux guiding device with spin torque oscillator (STO) film having negative spin polarization layers in assisted writing application" was invented by Wenyu Chen (San Jose, Calif.), Shohei Kawasaki (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Tetsuya Roppongi (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A STRAMR structure is disclosed. The STRAMR structure can include a spin torque oscillator (STO) device in a WG provided between the mail pole (MP) trailing side and a trailing shield. The STO device, includes: a flux guiding layer that has a negative spin po...