US Patent Issued to Georgetown University, The Regents of the University of California on Sept. 29 for "Large Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction and perpendicular magnetic anisotropy induced by chemisorbed species on ferromagnets" (California, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,609, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Georgetown University (Washington) and The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Large Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction and perpendicular magnetic anisotropy induced by chemisorbed species on ferromagnets" was invented by Gong Chen (El Cerrito, Calif.), Kai Liu (Falls Church, Va.) and Andreas Schmid (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments may provide the realization of strong Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction (DMI) and perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) induced by chemisorbed species on a ferromagnetic layer. For example, in an embodiment, an a...