ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,610, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Analysis device, analysis system and portable information terminal" was invented by Hideaki Fukuzawa (Tokyo), Tomohito Mizuno (Tokyo) and Tetsuya Shibata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An analysis device includes: at least one magnetic element having a first ferromagnetic layer, a second ferromagnetic layer, and a spacer layer sandwiched between the first ferromagnetic layer and the second ferromagnetic layer; and a light source configured to emit a light, wherein the light is applied to an object to be analyzed, and the at least one magnetic element is configured to ...