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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 26, 2018
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Pankaj Mehra, San Jose, CA (US);
Bernd Lamberts, San Jose, CA (US);
Sridhar Chatradhi, San Jose, CA (US);
Jordan A. Katine, Mountain View, CA (US);
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed herein are magnetic storage media with embedded disconnected circuits, and magnetic storage systems comprising such media. A magnetic storage media comprises a recording layer comprising a storage location, and an embedded disconnected circuit (EDC) configured to assist in at least one of writing to or reading from the storage location in response to a wireless activation signal. A magnetic storage system comprises a signal generator configured to generate a wireless activation signal, a magnetic storage media with a plurality of storage locations, and a write transducer and/or a read receiver. The magnetic storage media has at least one EDC configured to assist in writing to and/or reading from at least one of the plurality of storage locations in response to the wireless activation signal.