US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on Dec. 2 for "Spin orbit torque based thermal sensor for insitu monitoring of magnetic recording head" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,296, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Spin orbit torque based thermal sensor for insitu monitoring of magnetic recording head" was invented by Quang Le (San Jose, Calif.), Xiaoyong Liu (San Jose, Calif.), Brian R. York (San Jose, Calif.), Cherngye Hwang (San Jose, Calif.), Rohan Babu Nagabhirava (Virginia Beach, Va.), Kuok San Ho (Emerald Hills, Calif.), Hisashi Takano (Fujisawa, Japan), Son T. Le (San Jose, Calif.), Nam Hai Pham (Tokyo) and Huy H. Ho (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to temperature detection devices including a ferrom...