US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on Sept. 8 for "Shield designs for two dimensional magnetic recording read heads" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,604, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Shield designs for two dimensional magnetic recording read heads" was invented by Yung-Hung Wang (San Jose, Calif.), Ming Mao (Dublin, Calif.), James Mac Freitag (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Chih-Ching Hu (Pleasanton, Calif.), Chen-Jung Chien (Mountain View, Calif.), Yuankai Zheng (Fremont, Calif.), Alexander M. Zeltser (San Jose, Calif.) and Fang Chen (Livermore, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to a two dimensional magnetic recording (TDMR) read head. The read head comprises a lower shield, a lower se...