ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,418, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"Nanodevice, method of making the same, and method of using the same" was invented by Vladimir M. Shalaev (West Lafayette, Ind.), Pramey Upadhyaya (West Lafayette, Ind.), Abhishek Bharatbhai Solanki (West Lafayette, Ind.), Simeon I. Bogdanov (Champaign, Ill.), Yong P. Chen (West Lafayette, Ind.), Mohammad Mushfiqur Rahman (West Lafayette, Ind.) and Avinash Rustagi (West Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nanodevice provides for electric-field control of magnon-QSD interactions. The nanodevice includes a ferroelectric substrate, a ...