US Patent Issued to IMEC VZW on Dec. 30 for "Magnetoelectric device including deformable piezoelectronic and magnetostrictive elements" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,514,126, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to IMEC VZW (Leuven, Belgium).

"Magnetoelectric device including deformable piezoelectronic and magnetostrictive elements" was invented by Hanns Christoph Adelmann (Wilsele, Belgium) and Florin Ciubotaru (Heverlee, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetoelectric ("ME") device is disclosed. In one aspect, the ME device includes a first piezoelectric substrate portion and a second piezoelectric substrate portion; a magnetostrictive body with a magnetization oriented in a first direction, the magnetostrictive body arranged on and extending between the first and second portions; a pair of inp...