ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,668, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).
"Magnetic element and magnetic memory array" was invented by Takuya Ashida (Tokyo) and Tatsuo Shibata (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic element according to an embodiment includes a wiring layer extending in a first direction and including a ferromagnetic material and a nonmagnetic layer laminated on the wiring layer in a second direction. The wiring layer includes a side surface inclined with respect to the second direction in a cross section orthogonal to the first direction. The side surface has one or more bending points at which an inclination angle with r...