ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,953, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Domain wall movement element, magnetoresistive element, and magnetic array" was invented by Shinto Ichikawa (Tokyo) and Tatsuo Shibata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A domain wall movement element includes a reference layer, nonmagnetic layer, domain wall movement layer, and first and second magnetization fixed layers. The first layer is connected to the domain wall movement layer. The second layer is connected to the domain wall movement layer at a position different from the first in a first direction. The nonmagnetic layer is interposed between the reference layer ...