US Patent Issued to Seagate Technology on Sept. 29 for "Magneto-optical Kerr effect reader for hard disk drives" (British, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,505, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Seagate Technology LLC (Fremont, Calif.).

"Magneto-optical Kerr effect reader for hard disk drives" was invented by Alexey Dobrynin (Londonderry, Great Britain), Andres David Barbosa Neira (Londonderry, Great Britain), Yury Khaydukov (Londonderry, Great Britain), Beverley Rutherford McConnell (Londonderry, Great Britain), Kevin Anthony McNeill (Londonderry, Great Britain) and Mark Anthony Gubbins (Letterkenny, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are disk drives that utilize the magneto-optic Kerr effect (MOKE) in near field to read data that has been recorded on magnetic media. W...