ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,389, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Everspin Technologies Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Methods of manufacturing a magnetic field sensor" was invented by Renu Whig (Chandler, Ariz.), Phillip Mather (Phoenix), Kenneth Smith (Chandler, Ariz.), Sanjeev Aggarwal (Scottsdale, Ariz.), Jon Slaughter (Slingerlands, N.Y.) and Nicholas Rizzo (Gilbert, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor process integrates three bridge circuits, each include magnetoresistive sensors coupled as a Wheatstone bridge on a single chip to sense a magnetic field in three orthogonal directions. The process includes various deposition and etch steps form...