ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,114, issued on June 17, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Receiving device, transceiver device, communication system, portable terminal device, and photodetection element" 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: "A receiving device includes a 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, wherein the first ferromagnetic layer is configured to be irradiated with light containing an optical signal with a change of ...