Imec Assigned Patent

Imec vzw, Leuven, Belgium, has been assigned a patent (11737371) developed by Couet, Sebastien, Grez-Doiceau, Belgium, Rao, Siddharth, and Carpenter, Robert, Leuven, Belgium, for a “spintronic device.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “The disclosed technology relates generally to a magnetic device and more particularly to a spintronic device comprising a tunnel barrier, a hybrid storage layer on the tunnel barrier and a metal layer on the hybrid storage layer. The hybrid storage layer comprises a first magnetic layer, a spacer layer on the first magnetic layer and at least one further magnetic layer on the spacer layer and exchange coupled to the first magnetic layer via the spacer layer.”

The patent application was filed on 2020-10-23 (17/079264).