ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,198, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Magnetic memory" was invented by Masahiro Koike (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan), Michael Arnaud Quinsat (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan), Nobuyuki Umetsu (Kawasaki Kanagawa, Japan), Tsutomu Nakanishi (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan), Agung Setiadi (Tokyo), Megumi Yakabe (Kawasaki Kanagawa, Japan), Shigeyuki Hirayama (Tokyo), Masaki Kado (Kamakura Kanagawa, Japan), Yasuaki Ootera (Yokohama Kanagawa, Japan), Shiho Nakamura (Kawasaki Kanagawa, Japan), Susumu Hashimoto (Tokyo) and Tsuyoshi Kondo (Kawasaki Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory includes: a magnet including a...