TDK Assigned Patent

TDK Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11974507) developed by Tsumita, Atsushi, and Shiokawa, Yohei, Tokyo, Japan, for “storage element, semiconductor device, magnetic recording array, and method of manufacturing storage element.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A storage element includes a first ferromagnetic layer, a second ferromagnetic layer, a nonmagnetic layer interposed between the first ferromagnetic layer and the second ferromagnetic layer in a first direction, a first wiring that extends in a second direction different from the first direction and together with the nonmagnetic layer sandwiches the first ferromagnetic layer in the first direction, and an electrode that together with the nonmagnetic layer sandwiches the second ferromagnetic layer in at least a part in the first direction, wherein the electrode is in contact with at least a part of a lateral side surface of the second ferromagnetic layer.”

The patent application was filed on 2019-03-28 (17/288612).