US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on Aug. 11 for "Aromatic and aromatic-like containing media lubricants for data storage devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,835, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Aromatic and aromatic-like containing media lubricants for data storage devices" was invented by Xingliang He (Fremont, Calif.), Jianming Wen (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Charles Cheng-Hsing Lee (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aromatic or aromatic-like group(s) containing lubricant configured to be adsorbed by a magnetic recording media is formed fromwhere Ar is an aromatic group, polyaromatic hydrocarbon (PAH), annulene, cycloalkane or heterocycle, m=1-10, R1 and R2 are moieties containing first and second polar groups, res...