Radboud Universiteit Assigned Patent

Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, has been assigned a patent (9,773,603) developed by Rasing, Theodorus Henricus Maria, Mentink, Johan, Kirilyuk, Andrei, Kimel, Alexey, Evans, Richard Francis Llewelyn, Chantrell, Roy William, Ostler, Thomas Andrew, and Barker, Joseph, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, for a “magnetization reversal.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A method of magnetization reversal, time stable ferrimagnetic material, a product and a domain comprising said material, a system for magnetization reversal, and information storage. Therein, a ferrimagnetic material is one in which magnetic moments of the atoms on different sublattices are opposed, as in antiferromagnetism, however, in ferrimagnetic materials, the opposing moments are unequal and a spontaneous magnetization remains..“

The patent application was filed on June 23, 2014 (14/312,242).