US Patent Issued to MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV on Dec. 30 for "Method for switching magnetic moments in magnetic material using seeded spin-orbit torque" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,139, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV (Munich).

"Method for switching magnetic moments in magnetic material using seeded spin-orbit torque" was invented by Stuart S.P. Parkin (Halle, Germany), Banabir Pal (Halle, Germany), Binoy Krishna Hazra (Halle, Germany) and See-Hun Yang (Halle, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for switching magnetic moments in a magnetic material by: a) heating a system comprising formed from a layer of magnetic material and a layer of a metal contact with contacting and forming an interface with one surface of the magnetic material la...