ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,680, issued on March 4, was assigned to VACUUMSCHMELZE GMBH & Co. KG (Hanau, Germany).

"Method and device for producing soft magnetic strip material for strip ring cores" was invented by Christian Polak (Blankenbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing soft magnetic strip material for roll tape-wound cores with the following steps: preparing a band-shaped material, applying a heat-treatment temperature to the band-shaped material, and applying a tensile force to the temperature-applied band-shaped material in one longitudinal direction of the band-shaped material in order to produce a tensile stress in the b...