US Patent Issued to Seagate Technology on Sept. 8 for "Actuator materials and designs for hard disk drives" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,607, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Seagate Technology LLC (Fremont, Calif.).

"Actuator materials and designs for hard disk drives" was invented by Xiong Liu (Singapore), Barish Chakravarty (Singapore), Li Hong Zhang (Singapore), Than Zaw Myint (Singapore) and YiChao Ma (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes an E-block. The E-block includes a body portion and one or more arms extending from the body portion. At least one of (1) the body portion, or (2) at least one of the one or more arms, comprises a magnesium-lithium alloy material. In embodiments, the body portion and the one or more arms are integrall...