US Patent Issued to YEDA RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, YISSUM RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT COMPANY OF THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM on Oct. 7 for "Spin current and magnetoresistance from the orbital hall effect" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,831, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to YEDA RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT Co. LTD. (Rehovot, Israel) and YISSUM RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT COMPANY OF THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM LTD. (Jerusalem).

"Spin current and magnetoresistance from the orbital hall effect" was invented by Binghai Yan (Rehovot, Israel), Jiewen Xiao (Rehovot, Israel) and Amir Capua (Jerusalem).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices for sensing and manipulating magnetic fields based on spin current interactions independent of the Spin Hall Effect (SHE) in heavy metal. Spin current is generated in ordinary metals by conversion of out-of-plane orbital current arising from ...