US Patent Issued to Seagate Technology on Aug. 25 for "Optical signal transmission in a hard disk drive" (Singaporean, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,840, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Seagate Technology LLC (Fremont, Calif.).

"Optical signal transmission in a hard disk drive" was invented by Barish Chakravarty (Shugart, Singapore), Mark Anthony Gubbins (Springtown, Great Britain), Xiong Liu (Shugart, Singapore), John Kwong Heng Alphonsus Kwok (Shugart, Singapore) and Zi Jian Brandon Ang (Shugart, Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods and assemblies used to optically communicate signals within a hard disk drive between controller electronics and recording heads. One or more transceivers in a fixed location can be used to communicate with one or more t...