US Patent Issued to HRL Laboratories on Jan. 27 for "Methods for tailoring the magnetic permeability of soft magnets, and soft magnets obtained therefrom" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,749, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to HRL Laboratories LLC (Malibu, Calif.).

"Methods for tailoring the magnetic permeability of soft magnets, and soft magnets obtained therefrom" was invented by Amber Sucich (Calabasas, Calif.), Eric Clough (Santa Monica, Calif.), Brennan Yahata (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Darby Laplant (Ventura, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some variations provide a method of tailoring the surface of a soft magnet, comprising: depositing an austenite-phase-stabilizing donor material on one or more first surface regions of a ferromagnetic receiver material; not depositing the austenite-phase-stabilizing d...