US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on May 5 for "Writer having laterally decoupled pole sections" (Swiss, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,411, issued on May 5, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Writer having laterally decoupled pole sections" was invented by Hugo E. Rothuizen (Oberrieden, Switzerland), Stella Brach (Oberrieden, Switzerland), Rolf Allenspach (Adliswil, Switzerland), Simeon Furrer (Altdorf, Switzerland), Mark Alfred Lantz (Adliswil, Switzerland), Icko E. T. Iben (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Jason Liang (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, in accordance with one aspect of the present invention, includes a writer, having a first write pole having a pole tip extending from a media facing side of the ...