ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,559, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SOLAR APPLIED MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY CORP. (Tainan, Taiwan) and NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Iron-cobalt based target" was invented by Chih-Wen Tang (Tainan, Taiwan), Chih-Huang Lai (Tainan, Taiwan), Wei-Chih Huang (Tainan, Taiwan), Chun-Liang Yang (Tainan, Taiwan) and Kuan-Ling Ou (Tainan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a ferromagnetic free layer, comprising Fe, Co, B and an additive metal, and based on a total atomic number of the ferromagnetic free layer, a content of Co is more than 0 at % and less than 30 at %, a content of B is more than 10 at % and l...