US Patent Issued to MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN on March 25 for "Magnetic field generator" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,016, issued on March 25, was assigned to MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN E.V. (Munich).

"Magnetic field generator" was invented by Tian Qiu (Stuttgart, Germany) and Peer Fischer (Freiburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic field generator that comprises at least three groups of magnets, the magnetic moment of each magnet being rotatable about a rotation axis, wherein each group comprises at least two magnets, and each group has an orientation in the sense that the rotation axes of the magnetic moments of the magnets of the same group extend in the group's orientation. The orientations of the ...