US Patent Issued to Seagate Technology on April 14 for "Latch for zero/fixed skew data storage device" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,105, issued on April 14, was assigned to Seagate Technology LLC (Fremont, Calif.).

"Latch for zero/fixed skew data storage device" was invented by YiChao Ma (Singapore), Xiong Liu (Singapore), Than Zaw Myint (Singapore) and Brendon Shi Wei Leong (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a data storage disc having a read/write surface, and an arm extending along an arm axis and having a head end that supports a head that is configured to interact with the read/write surface. The apparatus also includes a rail extending along a rail axis that is normal to the arm axis, and a carriage coupled to the arm and movabl...