US Patent Issued to Regents of the University Of Minnesota on Sept. 9 for "Iron nitride permanent magnet and technique for forming iron nitride permanent magnet" (Minnesota, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,686, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Regents of the University Of Minnesota (Minneapolis).

"Iron nitride permanent magnet and technique for forming iron nitride permanent magnet" was invented by Jian-Ping Wang (Shoreview, Minn.), Shihai He (Fremont, Calif.) and Yanfeng Jiang (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A permanent magnet may include a Fe16N2 phase constitution. In some examples, the permanent magnet may be formed by a technique that includes straining an iron wire or sheet comprising at least one iron crystal in a direction substantially parallel to a greater than001less than crystal axis of the iron crystal; nitr...