US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies on March 3 for "Spin valve device with precious metal-free antiferromagnet in stabilization layer" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,225, issued on March 3, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Spin valve device with precious metal-free antiferromagnet in stabilization layer" was invented by Klemens Prugl (Regensburg, Germany), Miriam Schwan (Regensburg, Germany) and Bernhard Endres (Nabburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device having a spin valve layer sequence, wherein the spin valve layer sequence includes a first magnetic layer having a variable direction of magnetization, a second magnetic layer having a fixed direction of magnetization, and a stabilization layer for stabilizing the fixed direction of magnetization of th...