ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,879, issued on Oct. 6.
"Method of manufacturing permanent magnets" was invented by Rainer Meinke (Concord, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A continuous method of manufacturing permanent magnets and the permanent magnets created thereby. A fine powder is created from a combination of magnetic metals. The powder (a metal alloy) is placed in a non-magnetic container of any desired shape which could be, for example, a tube. The metal alloy and tube are swaged while a magnetic field is applied. Once swaging is complete, the metal alloy and tube are sintered and then cooled. Instead of sintering, a bonding agent can mixed into the powd...