ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,927, issued on May 19, was assigned to Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas).

"Near-landauer reversible skyrmion logic with voltage-based propagation" was invented by Joseph S. Friedman (Dallas), Benjamin W. Walker (Richardson, Texas), Xuan Hu (San Jose, Calif.) and Alexander J. Edwards (Melissa, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for skyrmion based processing is provided. The method comprises generating a number of skyrmions. The skyrmions are moved down a skyrmion racetrack using a multi-phase voltage-controlled magnetic anisotropy (VCMA) clock. A number of logical operations are performed with ...