US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on Oct. 20 for "High-speed high-voltage CMOS write driver" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,643, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"High-speed high-voltage CMOS write driver" was invented by John T. Contreras (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Rehan Zakai (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device comprises a magnetic medium and a head configured to be actuated over the magnetic medium. The head comprises a write element and a write driver configured to generate a write current to be applied to the write element. The write driver comprises a data switch section configured to switchably output low-level signals and high-level signals, and a stationary c...