US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on Dec. 16 for "Magnetic sensor element, magnetic sensor, and magnetic sensor device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,434, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Magnetic sensor element, magnetic sensor, and magnetic sensor device" was invented by Kaito Takeshima (Tokyo) and Tomokazu Ogomi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic sensor element includes a pinned layer, a first non-magnetic layer, a first magnetic layer, and a free layer. The pinned layer has a fixed magnetization direction. The first non-magnetic layer is laminated on the pinned layer. The first magnetic layer holds the first non-magnetic layer with the pinned layer. The free layer is disposed along a lamination direction in which the first no...