US Patent Issued to Kioxia on Dec. 30 for "Magnetic storage device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,514,133, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Magnetic storage device" was invented by Takeo Koike (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan), Rina Nomoto (Tokyo), Hiroyuki Kanaya (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan), Masahiko Nakayama (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan) and Daisuke Watanabe (Yokkaichi Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic storage device includes first and second magnetic layers and a non-magnetic layer, where the non-magnetic layer includes a first oxide layer containing magnesium and oxygen, a second oxide layer containing magnesium and oxygen, a third oxide layer containing zinc and oxygen, a fourth oxide layer conta...