US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies, Tokyo Institute of Technology on July 8 for "Higher areal density non-local spin orbit torque (SOT) writer with topological insulator materials" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,627, issued on July 8, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.) and Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo).

"Higher areal density non-local spin orbit torque (SOT) writer with topological insulator materials" was invented by Quang Le (San Jose, Calif.), Xiaoyong Liu (San Jose, Calif.), Cherngye Hwang (San Jose, Calif.), Brian R. York (San Jose, Calif.), Son T. Le (San Jose, Calif.), Sharon Swee Ling Banh (San Jose, Calif.), Maki Maeda (Fujisawa, Japan), Fan Tuo (Fujisawa, Japan), Yu Tao (Fujisawa, Japan), Hisashi Takano (Fujisawa, Japan) and Nam Hai Pham (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disc...