US Patent Issued to Magtera on Nov. 3 for "Magnetic memory based on tunable Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,793, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Magtera Inc. (Walnut Creek, Calif.).

"Magnetic memory based on tunable Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction" was invented by Boris G Tankhilevich (Walnut Creek, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory cell comprising a first layer of magnetic metal; a Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction spacer coupled to the first layer of magnetic metal; and a second layer of magnetic layer coupled to the RKKY spacer. The effective thickness of the RKKY spacer is changed by applied terahertz radiation resiling in changing the sign of RKKY interaction from a first sign of RKKY inte...