ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,236,988, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to TOHOKU UNIVERSITY (Sendai, Japan).

"Magnetic laminated film, magnetic memory element, magnetic memory, and artificial intelligence system" was invented by Yoshiaki Saito (Sendai, Japan), Tetsuo Endoh (Sendai, Japan) and Shoji Ikeda (Sendai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic multilayer film for a magnetic memory element includes an amorphous heavy metal layer having a multilayer structure in which a plurality of first layers containing Hf alternate repeatedly with a plurality of second layers containing a heavy metal excluding Hf; and a recording layer that includes a ferromagnetic...