US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on March 4 for "Additive manufacturing of ND-FE-B magnets with insulating layers" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,683, issued on March 4, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Additive manufacturing of ND-FE-B magnets with insulating layers" was invented by Wanfeng Li (Novi, Mich.), Franco Leonardi (Dearborn Heights, Mich.) and Michael W. Degner (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Permanent magnets and method of making the same are provided. The magnets include a magnetic layer having an insulation layer disposed thereon. The insulation layer is formed via additive manufacturing techniques such as laser melting such that it has discrete phases including a magnetic phase and an insulating phase."

The patent was...