ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,173, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).
"Magnetic film, magnetoresistive effect element, and method for manufacturing magnetic film" was invented by Yohei Shiokawa (Tokyo), Tomoyuki Sasaki (Tokyo), Takeshi Seki (Sendai, Japan) and Koki Takanashi (Sendai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic film includes a ferromagnetic layer. The ferromagnetic layer has a thickness or a width in a first direction which is longer than a thickness or a width in another direction, a crystalline structure is a tetragonal structure, and a main vector direction of a c axis of the tetragonal structure is the first direction....