US Patent Issued to Seagate Technology on March 31 for "Hard disk drives with piezoelectric ultrasonic motor" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,252, issued on March 31, was assigned to Seagate Technology LLC (Fremont, Calif.).

"Hard disk drives with piezoelectric ultrasonic motor" was invented by Yichao Ma (Singapore), Xiong Liu (Singapore) and Barish Chakravarty (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a linear actuator assembly with a rail, a carriage, and a piezoelectric actuator. The carriage is coupled to the rail such that the carriage is movable with respect to the rail, and the piezoelectric actuator is configured and arranged to cause the carriage to move linearly between ends of the rail."

The patent was filed on June 10, 2024, under Applic...