US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on Dec. 9 for "Semiconductor device with asymmetrical pinned magnets, and method of manufacture" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,721, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor device with asymmetrical pinned magnets, and method of manufacture" was invented by MingYuan Song (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chwen Yu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Shy-Jay Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device is provided that includes a semiconductor substrate on which a free magnetic element is positioned, which has first and second magnetic domains separated by a domain wall. A first magnet is positioned on the substrate near a first end of the free magnetic element, and has a first polarity and a first value ...