ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,812, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Carrier-resolved hall measurement with multi-harmonic magnetoresistance analysis" was invented by Oki Gunawan (Westwood, N.J.), Ching-Tzu Chen (Ossining, N.Y.) and Josephine Monica (Ithaca, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system, and a computer program product characterize a semiconductor. The method includes receiving longitudinal and transverse magnetoresistance measurements of a sample with first and second channels in a parallel magnetic field and receiving longitudinal and transverse magnetoresistance measurements of th...