Patents by Inventor Lori Grace Swanson

Lori Grace Swanson has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Laser assisted magnetic recording apparatus and method
    Patent number: 6762977
    Abstract: The present invention provides a hard disk drive laser assisted magnetic recording system including a semiconductor laser and magnetic write coil integrally formed into a slider. The slider preferably includes a perpendicular magnetic recording section adjacent a laser section. The laser section may form an air bearing surface of the slider. During recording operations, laser radiation from the laser section heats a region of the magnetic recording media in order to reduce its coercivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2004
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Edward Charles Gage, George Robert Gray, Lori Grace Swanson, Ronald Evan Gerber
  • High frequency thermally stable coil structure for magnetic recording heads utilizing a damascene process
    Publication number: 20030090834
    Abstract: The invention offers a writer coil that includes an insulator layer having a top surface and a bottom surface, a dielectric layer positioned on the top surface of the insulator layer, and at least a first and a second coil structure having a pitch of less than about 2 &mgr;m. The invention also offers a method of fabricating a writer coil by depositing an insulator layer, depositing a dielectric layer on the insulator layer, and forming at least one coil space and at least one coil structure within the dielectric layer by a Damascene process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2002
    Publication date: May 15, 2003
    Applicant: Seagate Technology LLC.
    Inventors: Mallika Kamarajugadda, Stephen Allen Jones, Lori Grace Swanson, Tien Quang Dam, Ming Jiang, Laura Christine Stearns, Lily Horng Youtt, Carolyn Marie Pitcher