US Patent Issued to Seagate Technology on July 21 for "Ferroelectric data storage reader" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,874, issued on July 21, was assigned to Seagate Technology LLC (Fremont, Calif.).

"Ferroelectric data storage reader" was invented by Peter Jeremy Czoschke (Bloomington, Minn.) and Ali Ghoreyshi (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are devices and methods for reading data from rotating ferroelectric data storage media using a reader that includes a channel region disposed between a source and a drain. The data bits, stored as dipoles in the ferroelectric media, induce a current flowing through the channel region of the reader from the source to the drain when a bias voltage is applied to the media. The bias voltage ca...