ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,146, issued on June 3, was assigned to KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Logic device using skyrmion" was invented by Kab-Jin Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Moojune Song (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a logic device using skyrmion, which comprises an input part; an output part; and an operation part located between the input part and the output part and includes at least one notch where the skyrmion can be annihilated, and in which the skyrmion moves from the input part to the output part by the applied current. The logic device provided i...