US Patent Issued to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education, The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York on June 30 for "Systems and methods for assembling electron spin and charge to possess properties of a magnetic monopole" (American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,007, issued on June 30, was assigned to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh) and The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (New York).

"Systems and methods for assembling electron spin and charge to possess properties of a magnetic monopole" was invented by Hrvoje Petek (Pittsburgh), Yanan Dai (New York), Chen-Bin Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Atreyie Ghosh (Pittsburgh) and Zhikang Zhou (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are systems and methods for assembling electron spin and charge to possess one or more properties of a magnetic monopole. Example ...