ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,235, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to HRL Laboratories LLC (Malibu, Calif.).

"Thermally stable, cladded permanent magnets, and compositions and methods for making the same" was invented by Brennan Yahata (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Adam Gross (Santa Monica, Calif.), Christopher Henry (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Darby Laplant (Ventura, Calif.), Amber Sucich (Calabasas, Calif.), Raymond Nguyen (Anaheim, Calif.) and Christine Kim (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology provides a nanofunctionalized magnetic material feedstock comprising: from 50 wt % to 99.5 wt % of magnetic microparticles having an average micr...