ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,498, issued on July 22, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Magnetic domain wall moving element and magnetic array" was invented by Shogo Yonemura (Tokyo), Tatsuo Shibata (Tokyo) and Shogo Yamada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic domain wall moving element includes a first ferromagnetic layer, non-magnetic layer, second ferromagnetic layer, first magnetization fixed part, second magnetization fixed part, first surface layer and second surface layer. The first and second ferromagnetic layer sandwich the non-magnetic layer, the second ferromagnetic layer has a region having a magnetic domain wall formed therein, the firs...