ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,117, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Niterra Materials Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).
"Cold storage material, refrigerator, device incorporating superconducting coil, and method of manufacturing cold storage material" was invented by Takahiro Kawamoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Tomoko Eguchi (Kanagawa, Japan), Tomohiro Yamashita (Kanagawa, Japan), Masaya Hagiwara (Kanagawa, Japan), Akiko Saito (Kanagawa, Japan) and Daichi Usui (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cold storage material, which has a large specific heat and a small magnetization in an extremely low temperature region and has satisfactory manufacturability, is provide...