US Patent Issued to IUCF-HYU (INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION HANYANG UNIVERSITY) on April 8 for "Logic element using spin-orbit torque and magnetic tunnel junction structure" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,178, issued on April 8, was assigned to IUCF-HYU (INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION HANYANG UNIVERSITY) (Seoul, South Korea).

"Logic element using spin-orbit torque and magnetic tunnel junction structure" was invented by Jin Pyo Hong (Seoul, South Korea), Jeong Hun Shin (Seoul, South Korea) and Jeong Woo Seo (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is logic device using spin orbit torque. Two magnetic tunnel junctions have mutually opposite magnetization directions. The direction of the current flowing through the non-magnetic metal layer acts as an input, and the resistance states of the magnetic tunnel ...