ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,731, issued on June 24, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Magnetic domain wall movement element including resistivity varying ferromagnetic layers" was invented by Shogo Yamada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic domain wall movement element includes a magnetic recording layer which includes a ferromagnetic material; a non-magnetic layer which is laminated on the magnetic recording layer; and a magnetization reference layer which is laminated on the non-magnetic layer, in which the magnetic recording layer has a first ferromagnetic layer, a spacer layer, and a second ferromagnetic layer in order from the non-magnetic l...