Sony Semiconductor Solutions Assigned Patent

Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp., Kanagawa, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11551737) developed by Hase, Naoki, Hosomi, Masanori, Tokyo, Japan, Higo, Yutaka, Ohmori, Hiroyuki, Uchida, Hiroyuki, and Sato, Yo, Kanagawa, Japan, for “magnetic storage element and electronic apparatus.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A magnetic storage element and an electronic apparatus having a reduced writing current while retaining a magnetism retention property of a storage layer. The magnetic storage element includes a spin orbit layer extending in one direction, a writing line that is electrically coupled to the spin orbit layer, and allows a current to flow in an extending direction of the spin orbit layer, a tunnel junction element including a storage layer, an insulator layer, and a magnetization fixed layer that are stacked in order on the spin orbit layer, and a non-magnetic layer having a film thickness of 2 nm or less, and disposed at any stack position between the spin orbit layer and the insulator layer..”

The patent application was filed on 2018-01-15 (16/497065).