ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,254, issued on May 20, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (South Korea).
"Magnetic device" was invented by Sanghwan Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Younghyun Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jaehoon Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jeongheon Park (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Sechung Oh (Yongin-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic device includes a seed pattern, a reference magnetic structure on the seed pattern, a free magnetic pattern on the reference magnetic structure, and a tunnel barrier between the reference magnetic structure and the free magnetic pattern. The reference magnetic structure includes a synthetic ...