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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2012
U.s. Army Research Laboratory, Washington, DC (US);
Alan S. Edelstein, Alexandria, VA (US);
Jonathan R. Petrie, Columbia, MD (US);
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
A method and system for storing information in a nonvolatile memory comprising: a substrate comprising magnetic material operatively associated therewith, the magnetic material having at least one first portion of low permeability and at least one second portion of high permeability; a reader comprising a sensor for reading information by measuring the magnetic permeability for the at least one first portion and the at least one second portion; whereby the at least one first and second portions are subjected to a magnetic probe field from one of an external source, the sensor, or a combination of an external source and the sensor.