ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,119, issued on June 23, was assigned to DELTA ELECTRONICS (JAPAN) INC. (Tokyo).

"Magnetic core and magnetic component" was invented by Shokan Yamashita (Niigata-ken, Japan), Akio Hanada (Niigata-ken, Japan) and Munemitsu Abe (Miyagi-ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a magnetic core including a core assembly having a structure that multiple thin strip blocks are arranged, the thin strip blocks being formed of multiple laminates of nanocrystalline thin strips made of a nanocrystal-containing alloy material, the thin strip block includes a fixedly joined portion in which the nanocrystalline thin strips adjacent to each other ...