Riken Assigned Patent

Riken, Saitama, Japan, has been assigned a patent (9,824,712) developed by Nagaosa, Naoto, Tokyo, Japan, Koshibae, Wataru, Saitama, Japan, Iwasaki, Junichi, Kawasaki, Masashi, Tokura, Yoshinori, Tokyo, Japan, and Kaneko, Yoshio, Chiba, Japan, for a “magnetic storage media and data storage device.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A magnetic storage media which has an endurance, (durability) characteristics close to an infinite number of writing times of data and a data retention, (holding) characteristics close to permanency, and is ultra-high-speed writable and erasable, and a data storage device and an image storage device which apply this magnetic storage media are provided. A magnetic storage media includes a thin layer magnet and a magnetic field generating unit arranged facing a surface of the magnet, and is capable of creating or eliminating a skyrmion by applying heat energy to another surface of the magnet positioned on the opposite side of the surface of the magnet, and a skyrmion memory includes the magnetic storage media.”

The patent application was filed on February 3, 2017 (15/423,600).