ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,899, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Proterial Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Fe-Co-based alloy bar" was invented by Daiki Kato (Tokyo), Hidetaka Yakabe (Tokyo), Masaru Fujiyoshi (Tokyo), Shujiroh Uesaka (Tokyo) and Shinsuke Sasabe (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Along with higher performance of products, materials are also required to achieve both a high strength and favorable magnetic properties according to applications of products. Therefore, the present invention provides an Fe-Co-based alloy bar which enables both a high strength and favorable magnetic properties to be achieved.An Fe-Co-based alloy bar contains 30% to 80% of crystal g...