Texas Instruments Assigned Patent

Texas Instruments, Inc., Dallas, TX, has been assigned a patent (8,238,061) developed by Ramlah Binte Abdul Razak, Plano, TX, for "printed circuit cable assembly with stiffener portions and flexible portions."

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A printed circuit cable assembly (PCCA) for a hard disk drive (HDD) is disclosed. The PCCA includes a stiffener portion having an elongated shape that includes an integrated circuit (IC) chip. The PCCA also includes a flexible portion extending from the elongated stiffener portion, wherein the PCCA is configured to be mountable on a headstack of the HDD such that an entire footprint of the IC chip overlays a metallic portion of the headstack of the HDD."

The patent application was filed on Feb. 25, 2009 (12/392,711).