ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,085, issued on July 15, was assigned to RIKEN (Saitama, Japan).
"Inductor element and apparatus including same" was invented by Naoto Nagaosa (Wako, Japan), Yoshinori Tokura (Wako, Japan), Tomoyuki Yokouchi (Wako, Japan), Masashi Kawasaki (Wako, Japan), Yoshichika Otani (Wako, Japan) and Maximilian Anton Hirschberger (Wako, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to obtain an inductor element advantageous for miniaturization, an inductor element 10 according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is provided with a metal medium 2 in which ordered spins are spatially arranged so as to have a non-collinear spin structure when...