ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,445, issued on May 19, was assigned to WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Methods and apparatus for identifying substrates suitable for use in magnetic recording media" was invented by Shoji Suzuki (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus of identifying a substrate suitable for use within a magnetic medium of a data storage device configured for magnetic recording are described. In an aspect, the method includes identifying dimensions of a slider of the data storage device to be used in conjunction with the magnetic medium and determining a measurement length and a localized height thr...