ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,971, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Brown University (Providence, R.I.) and NATIONAL TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING SOLUTIONS OF SANDIA LLC (Albuquergue, N.M.).

"Two-dimensional semiconductor structure with controllable magnetic state and ferromagnetic resonance" was invented by Jia Li (Providence, R.I.), Andrew Mounce (Albuquerque, N.M.), Erin Morissette (Providence, R.I.) and Jiangxiazi Lin (Providence, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for fabricating an assembly with a controllable magnetic state and ferromagnetic resonance. A layer of twisted bilayer graphene is positioned in contact with a trans...