ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,996, issued on July 15, was assigned to Ceremorphic Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"System and method for spin orbit torque based memory device" was invented by Akshaykumar Salimath (Hyderabad, India), Sanghamitra Debroy (Hyderabad, India) and Venkat Mattela (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for a memory device is disclosed. A substrate is provided. A first ferromagnetic layer is disposed over the substrate. A spacer layer is disposed over the first ferromagnetic layer. A second ferromagnetic layer is disposed over the spacer layer and magnetized in a first direction. A first charge current pulse is passe...