US Patent Issued to BAHCESEHIR UNIVERSITESI, PIRI REIS UNIVERSITESI on Jan. 13 for "Production of Fe 16 N 2 compound as a permanent magnet" (Argentinean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,393, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to BAHCESEHIR UNIVERSITESI (Istanbul) and PIRI REIS UNIVERSITESI (Istanbul).

"Production of Fe 16 N 2 compound as a permanent magnet" was invented by Ozan Akdogan (Istanbul, Argentina), Nilay Gunduz Akdogan (Istanbul, Argentina) and Onur Zirhli (Istanbul, Argentina).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A production method of a Fe16N2 based permanent magnet includes the following steps: 1) obtaining a Fe16N2 compound in a form of micro flakes by applying a nitriding process to Alpha'-Fe powders of micro or nano sizes; 2) forming a structure by combining a polymer material with the Fe16N2 compound and util...