US Patent Issued to Seagate Technology on March 24 for "Laser diode having bowtie-ridge waveguide for heat-assisted magnetic recording, and related apparatuses, devices, systems, and methods" (British, American, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,983, issued on March 24, was assigned to Seagate Technology LLC (Fremont, Calif.).

"Laser diode having bowtie-ridge waveguide for heat-assisted magnetic recording, and related apparatuses, devices, systems, and methods" was invented by Vivek Krishnamurthy (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Supratim Basak (Londonderry, Great Britain) and Aidan Dominic Goggin (Donegal, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Single-transverse-mode laser diodes that include a bowtie-shaped ridge waveguide. Related apparatuses, data storage devices, computing systems, and methods."

The patent was filed on Dec. 31, 2024, under Application No. 19/006,730.

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