US Patent Issued to Imec vzw, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven on Oct. 27 for "VCMA MRAM device" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,356, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Imec vzw (Leuven, Belgium) and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Leuven, Belgium).

"VCMA MRAM device" was invented by Woojin Kim (Watermael-Boitsfort, Belgium), Robert Carpenter (Kessel-Lo, Belgium) and Maxwel Gama Monteiro Junior (Leuven, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory stack for a VCMA-MRAM device includes a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) layer structure, an auxiliary magnetic layer structure including a second hard magnetic layer and an auxiliary magnetic layer, and an interposer layer structure interposing a free layer of the MTJ layer structure and the auxiliary magnetic laye...