US Patent Issued to Quadrant International on April 22 for "Permanent magnetic assemblies and methods of assembling same" (Alabama Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,417, issued on April 22, was assigned to Quadrant International Inc. (San Diego).

"Permanent magnetic assemblies and methods of assembling same" was invented by George E. Mizzell Jr. (Hoover, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic assembly includes a plurality of magnets arranged in a Halbach array. The plurality of magnets includes a first magnet and a second magnet positioned adjacent the first magnet, the first magnet having a first surface and the second magnet having a second surface adjacent the first surface. A first cavity is defined in the first surface and a second cavity is defined in the second surface. The magneti...