ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,455, issued on April 7, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Memory device and memory system" was invented by Lui Sakai (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a memory device that includes a magnetic memory element, an auxiliary magnetic field application unit, and a write control unit, in which the magnetic memory element includes a reference layer having a fixed magnetization direction, and a storage layer and having a reversible magnetization direction, and that stores data in association with two states of a parallel state and an anti-parallel state, the auxiliary magnetic fi...