ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,253, issued on May 20, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic domain wall movement element includes a magnetoresistance effect part, a first electrode, a second electrode, a third electrode, a first magnetization fixed layer, and a second magnetization fixed layer. The magnetoresistance effect part includes a reference layer, a magnetic domain wall movement layer, and a non-magnetic layer. The magnetic domain wall movement layer has a first region and second region in which a ...