ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,138, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).
"Magnetic memory" was invented by Naoharu Shimomura (Meguro Tokyo, Japan), Tsuyoshi Kondo (Kawasaki Kanagawa, Japan), Michael Arnaud Quinsat (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan), Yasuaki Ootera (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan), Masaki Kado (Kamakura Kanagawa, Japan), Yoshihiro Ueda (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan), Tsutomu Nakanishi (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan), Nobuyuki Umetsu (Kawasaki Kanagawa, Japan), Susumu Hashimoto (Nerima Tokyo, Japan) and Shiho Nakamura (Kawasaki Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic memory includes a plurality of cylindrical magnetic members each ext...