US Patent Issued to INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE TOKYO on April 15 for "Spin injection source, magnetic memory, spin hall oscillator, computer, and magnetic sensor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,534, issued on April 15, was assigned to INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE TOKYO (Tokyo).

"Spin injection source, magnetic memory, spin hall oscillator, computer, and magnetic sensor" was invented by Nam Hai Pham (Tokyo), Takanori Shirakura (Tokyo) and Tsuyoshi Kondo (Kawasaki Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a spin injection source comprising a half Heusler alloy-topological semi-metal that has a surface state of Dirac type and that is in contact with a ferromagnet. The half Heusler alloy-topological semi-metal supplies a spin current to the ferromagnet based on a current flowing in a direction parallel ...