US Patent Issued to Brown University on July 29 for "Implementing computing functions using skyrmions" (Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,483, issued on July 29, was assigned to Brown University (Providence, R.I.).

"Implementing computing functions using skyrmions" was invented by Gang Xiao (Barrington, R.I.) and Kang Wang (Providence, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided that exploit local dynamics of a skyrmion to perform a computing function. A magnetic system hosts a skyrmion that transitions among a plurality of states, with each of the plurality of states having an associated switching probability. A bias source provides energy to the magnetic system as to adjust a switching probability associated with one of the plurality of state...