US Patent Issued to NIRON MAGNETICS on July 15 for "Coercivity-enhanced iron nitride nanoparticles with high saturation magnetization" (Minnesota, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,082, issued on July 15, was assigned to NIRON MAGNETICS INC. (Minneapolis).

"Coercivity-enhanced iron nitride nanoparticles with high saturation magnetization" was invented by Francis Johnson (Minneapolis), Yiming Wu (Shoreview, Minn.), John Michael Larson (Northfield, Minn.) and L. Anderson Blackburn (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Iron nitride nanoparticles and magnet materials made from iron nitride nanoparticles are described. The iron nitride nanoparticles have a core and a shell morphology. The shell is configured to provide a means to nitride the core. The magnetic materials are characterized as having an Ms...