US Patent Issued to Seagate Technology on Nov. 3 for "Magnetoresistive sensor comprising a laminated free layer" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,473, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Seagate Technology LLC (Fremont, Calif.).

"Magnetoresistive sensor comprising a laminated free layer" was invented by Liwen Tan (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Jae Young Yi (Prior Lake, Minn.) and Eric Singleton (Delano, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetoresistive sensor including a spacer layer, a cap layer, and a laminated free layer between the spacer layer and the cap layer is described. The laminated free layer includes a stack with alternating ferromagnetic and separation layers. The separation layer of the laminated free layer includes a magnetic or non-magnetic material."

The patent w...