US Patent Issued to Seagate Technology on Oct. 20 for "Magnetic write pole with low magnetic moment wrapper" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,644, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Seagate Technology LLC (Fremont, Calif.).

"Magnetic write pole with low magnetic moment wrapper" was invented by Mourad Benakli (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Jianhua Xue (Maple Grove, Minn.) and Michael Allen Seigler (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are recording heads for magnetic writing of data in a disk drive, such as a heat-assisted magnetic recording disk drive, and in particular to write pole constructions that employ a low magnetic moment material disposed around the top and sides of the write pole tip. Accordingly, a low magnetic moment wrapper may disposed around...