Inventor · San Jose, CA, US

Luc Thomas

38Patents
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31Co-inventors
75Inventor score

Filing activity: Jul 11, 1979 → Jan 24, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6166948A Magnetic memory array with magnetic tunnel junction memory cells having flux-closed free layers Electricity 253 Expired
US9466319B1 Perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) write shield design with minimized wide adjacent track erasure (WATE) Physics 80 Active
US8687415B2 Domain wall motion in perpendicularly magnetized wires having artificial antiferromagnetically coupled multilayers with engineered interfaces Electricity 37 Active
US9425387B1 Magnetic element with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy for high coercivity after high temperature annealing Electricity 35 Active
US7626844B1 Magnetic racetrack with current-controlled motion of domain walls within an undulating energy landscape Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 21 Active
US4285044A Digital generator for producing a sinewave Physics 20 Expired
US10014465B1 Maintaining coercive field after high temperature anneal for magnetic device applications with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy Electricity 14 Active
US7667994B1 Magnetic racetrack with current-controlled motion of domain walls within an undulating energy landscape Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 12 Active
US10522746B1 Dual magnetic tunnel junction devices for magnetic random access memory (MRAM) Physics 11 Active
US10797225B2 Dual magnetic tunnel junction (DMTJ) stack design Electricity 9 Active
US7760535B2 Sequence of current pulses for depinning magnetic domain walls Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 5 Active
US7492622B2 Sequence of current pulses for depinning magnetic domain walls Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 5 Active
US10475564B2 Perpendicularly magnetized ferromagnetic layers having an oxide interface allowing for improved control of oxidation Electricity 4 Active
US11264560B2 Minimal thickness, low switching voltage magnetic free layers using an oxidation control layer and magnetic moment tuning layer for spintronic applications Electricity 3 Active
US8934289B2 Multiple bit nonvolatile memory based on current induced domain wall motion in a nanowire magnetic tunnel junction Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 3 Active
US10658577B2 Maintaining coercive field after high temperature anneal for magnetic device applications with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy Electricity 3 Active
US8923039B2 Multiple bit nonvolatile memory based on current induced domain wall motion in a nanowire magnetic tunnel junction Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 2 Active
US10115892B2 Multilayer structure for reducing film roughness in magnetic devices Electricity 2 Active
US8638601B1 Domain wall motion in perpendicularly magnetized wires having magnetic multilayers with engineered interfaces Physics 1 Active
US11264566B2 Magnetic element with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) and improved coercivity field (Hc)/switching current ratio Electricity 1 Active
US10754000B2 Multi-probe ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) apparatus for wafer level characterization of magnetic films Physics 1 Active
US10788561B2 Method for measuring saturation magnetization of magnetic films and multilayer stacks Physics 1 Active
US10950782B2 Nitride diffusion barrier structure for spintronic applications Electricity 1 Active
US11683994B2 Magnetic element with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) and improved coercivity field (Hc)/switching current ratio Electricity 0 Active
US12356865B2 Multilayer structure for reducing film roughness in magnetic devices Electricity 0 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.