US Patent Issued to TDK on April 8 for "Photodetection element and receiver" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,476, issued on April 8, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Photodetection element and receiver" was invented by Tomohito Mizuno (Tokyo), Hideaki Fukuzawa (Tokyo) and Tetsuya Shibata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photodetection element includes: a first ferromagnetic layer configured to be irradiated with light; a second ferromagnetic layer; and a spacer layer sandwiched between the first ferromagnetic layer and the second ferromagnetic layer, wherein the first ferromagnetic layer includes a first region in contact with the spacer layer and a second region disposed in a position farther from the space layer than the first r...