US Patent Issued to Apple on June 3 for "Yoke structures for magnetometers" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,871, issued on June 3, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Yoke structures for magnetometers" was invented by Jason Janesky (Campbell, Calif.) and Savas Gider (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are disclosed for yoke structures for improved magnetometer performance. In an embodiment, a magnetometer comprises: a yoke structure comprising at least one hard magnetic layer and at least one soft magnetic layer arranged along a dimension of the yoke structure, where a first coercivity of the at least one hard magnetic layer is greater than a second coercivity of the at least one soft magnetic layer; an...