US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on Sept. 8 for "Read head with multiple contacts formed underneath the sensor" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,606, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Read head with multiple contacts formed underneath the sensor" was invented by Jennifer L. Grab (San Jose, Calif.) and Howard G. Zolla (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to a magnetic recording device comprising a read head. The read head comprises a bottom shield, a first lead, a second lead, and a third lead each disposed over the bottom shield at a media facing surface, a sensing layer disposed in contact with at least the second lead, an optional spacer layer, a free layer disposed...