ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,658,364, issued on June 16, was assigned to 3M Innovative Properties Co. (St. Paul, Minn.).
"Magnetic film" was invented by Zhonghua Lu (Woodbury, Minn.), Jeffrey W. McCutcheon (Baldwin, Wis.), Sergei A. Manuilov (Bayport, Minn.), Joseph B. Eckel (Vadnais Heights, Minn.), Aaron K. Nienaber (Lake Elmo, Minn.), Michael S. Graff (Woodbury, Minn.), Ronald D. Jesme (Plymouth, Minn.), Charles L. Bruzzone (Woodbury, Minn.), Steven H. Kong (Woodbury, Minn.) and Shane P. White (Stillwater, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic film includes a plurality of magnetically permeable particles dispersed between opposing first and second major...