ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,237, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SICHUAN UNIVERSITY (Sichuan, China).
"Anisotropic nanocrystalline rare earth permanent magnet" was invented by Ying Liu (Sichuan, China), Renquan Wang (Sichuan, China), Jun Li (Sichuan, China), Hongxing Chen (Sichuan, China) and Yao Xiao (Sichuan, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are an anisotropic nanocrystalline rare earth permanent magnet and a preparation method thereof. The rare earth permanent magnet includes an RE-Fe-B matrix phase and a second phase, wherein the RE-Fe-B matrix phase includes main phase RE2Fe14B flaky nanocrystallines regularly arranged and an RE-rich phase...