US Patent Issued to Regents of the University of Minnesota, Government of the United States of America and Theiss Research on Sept. 22 for "Scalable spintronic devices formed on silicon wafers" (Minnesota, Maryland, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,571, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis) and Government of the United States of America and Theiss Research Inc..

"Scalable spintronic devices formed on silicon wafers" was invented by Jian-Ping Wang (Shoreview, Minn.), Deyuan Lyu (Minneapolis), Daniel B. Gopman (Gaithersburg, Md.) and Jenae E. Shoup (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device which includes a silicon wafer substrate and a seed layer formed on a surface of the silicon wafer substrate. The device also includes a perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) layer exhibiting crystalline PMA formed on the see...