US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on July 1 for "Electromagnetic systems for the selective manipulation of magnetically-barcoded materials" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,614, issued on July 1, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Electromagnetic systems for the selective manipulation of magnetically-barcoded materials" was invented by Peter Tseng (Oakland, Calif.) and Amirhossein Hajiaghajani (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein are directed to a system and a method of selectively manipulating magnetically-barcoded materials from background magnetic materials. Magnetic barcodes include layers of magnetic anisotropy. These are then manipulated by a magnetic system that can drive spatio-temporal magnetic fields that can "match" a b...