US Patent Issued to Kioxia on July 21 for "Magnetic memory device" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,395, issued on July 21, was assigned to Kioxia Corp. (Tokyo).

"Magnetic memory device" was invented by Kenji Fukuda (Seoul, South Korea), Tadaaki Oikawa (Seoul, South Korea), Kazuya Sawada (Seoul, South Korea) and Soichi Oikawa (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a magnetic memory device includes a first ferromagnetic layer having a fixed magnetization direction, a second ferromagnetic layer having a variable magnetization direction, a first nonmagnetic layer provided between the first ferromagnetic layer and the second ferromagnetic layer, and a second nonmagnetic layer provided on an oppo...