ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,578, issued on June 10, was assigned to IMEC vzw (Leuven, Belgium).

"Magnetic domain wall-based memory device with track-crossing architecture" was invented by Sebastien Couet (Grez-Doiceau, Belgium), Van Dai Nguyen (Wavre, Belgium), Gouri Sankar Kar (Leuven, Belgium), Siddharth Rao (Herent, Belgium) and Jose Diogo Costa (Heverlee, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology relates to a magnetic domain wall-based memory device including a combination of at least one magnetic domain wall track and at least one spin orbit torque (SOT) track, which are arranged in a crossing architecture. The SOT track can include a...