ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,702, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).
"Magnetic domain wall motion element, magnetic recording array, and magnetic memory" was invented by Shogo Yonemura (Tokyo), Tatsuo Shibata (Tokyo) and Minoru Ota (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic domain wall motion element includes a wiring layer including a first ferromagnetic layer and configured to extend in a first direction, a second ferromagnetic layer, and a spacer layer sandwiched between the wiring layer and the second ferromagnetic layer. In any cross section of the wiring layer taken along a plane perpendicular to the first direction, a first thickn...