ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,740, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC (Fremont, Calif.).

"Mechanical magnetoresistance device" was invented by Riyan Alex Mendonsa (Minneapolis), Brett R. Herdendorf (Mound, Minn.), Krishnan Subramanian (Shakopee, Minn.), Mark T. Kief (Lakeville, Minn.) and Jon D. Trantham (Chanhassen, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The described technology provides implementations of a mechanical magnetoresistance device. The mechanical magnetoresistance device includes a first magnetoresistive well, the magnetoresistive well including at least one magnetic element and a suspension substrate, wherein the at least one m...