US Patent Issued to Seagate Technology on Oct. 20 for "Heterogeneous integration of near field transducer components for heat-assisted magnetic recording heads" (British, Irish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,653, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Seagate Technology (Fremont, Calif.).

"Heterogeneous integration of near field transducer components for heat-assisted magnetic recording heads" was invented by Nestor Jr Dela Cruz Bareza (Londonderry, Great Britain), Deepak Kumar Singh (Londonderry, Great Britain), Amy Michelle Mackey (Claudy, Ireland), Bronagh Mitchell (Donegal, Ireland), Jeffery James Walter (Lino Lakes, Minn.) and Lien Lee (Minnetonka, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are methods heterogeneous integration of epitaxial (crystalline) material onto a near field transducer (NFT) of a heat-assisted magnetic recordi...