ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,600, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).
"System and method for disk drive fly height measurement" was invented by Enrico Sentieri (Lodi, Italy), Paolo Pulici (Lainate, Italy), Enrico Mammei (Vittuone, Italy), Michele Bartolini (Carpiano, Italy) and Matteo Tonelli (Parma, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a fly height includes measuring a first differential voltage between a first head of a disk drive and a reference voltage with a first front end circuit, converting the first differential voltage to a first analog current signal with the first front end circu...