ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,669, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).
"Magnetic memory" was invented by Tomoyuki Sasaki (Tokyo), Yohei Shiokawa (Tokyo) and Atsushi Tsumita (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic memory including a plurality of magnetoresistance effect elements that hold information, each including a first ferromagnetic metal layer with a fixed magnetization direction, a second ferromagnetic metal layer with a varying magnetization direction, and a non-magnetic layer sandwiched between the first and second ferromagnetic metal layers; a plurality of first control elements that control reading of the information, wherein ...