US Patent Issued to Seagate Technology on July 28 for "Near field transducers having magnetic inlays for improved heat-assisted magnetic recording" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,897, issued on July 28, was assigned to Seagate Technology LLC (Fremont, Calif.).

"Near field transducers having magnetic inlays for improved heat-assisted magnetic recording" was invented by Weibin Chen (Bloomington, Minn.), Jianhua Xue (Eden Prairie, Minn.) and Michael Allen Seigler (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are heat-assisted magnetic recording heads that include near-field transducers having a magnetic inlay incorporated into the emitter disk, for example to improve write field properties such as the write field angle (decrease) and/or write field strength (increase), and which can contribute to...