US Patent Issued to The University of Tokyo on July 1 for "Photonic spin register, information writing method, and information read-out method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,506, issued on July 1, was assigned to The University of Tokyo (Tokyo).

"Photonic spin register, information writing method, and information read-out method" was invented by Satoru Nakatsuji (Tokyo), Junji Yumoto (Tokyo), Ryo Shimano (Tokyo), Masamitsu Hayashi (Tokyo), Mitsuru Takenaka (Tokyo) and Yusuke Horinouchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photonic spin register includes: a shift register unit including a magnetic material layer having a shape extending in one direction; and a write unit configured to write spin information into a magnetic domain in the magnetic material layer by transferring information included in an ...