US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on April 21 for "Spin wave assisted MAMR recording head" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,136, issued on April 21, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Spin wave assisted MAMR recording head" was invented by Alexander Goncharov (Morgan Hill, Calif.) and Muhammad Asif Bashir (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to a magnetic recording device comprising a magnetic recording head. The magnetic recording head comprises a main pole, the main pole comprising a contact recessed from a media facing surface (MFS) and a contact terminal coupled to the contact, a trailing shield disposed adjacent to the main pole, a spin torque oscillat...