US Patent Issued to Iowa State University Research Foundation on Feb. 24 for "Near net shape fabrication of anisotropic magnet using hot roll method" (Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,724, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Iowa State University Research Foundation Inc. (Ames, Iowa).

"Near net shape fabrication of anisotropic magnet using hot roll method" was invented by Jun Cui (Ames, Iowa), Ryan T. Ott (Ames, Iowa), Wei Tang (Ames, Iowa), Xubo Liu (Ames, Iowa), Cajetan Ikenna Nlebedim (Ames, Iowa), Gaoyuan Ouyang (Ames, Iowa) and Chaochao Pan (Ames, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for fabrication of an anisotropic magnet comprises placing magnet alloy feedstock particles in a deformable metallic container and thermomechanically working the filled container in a manner to elongate the filled containe...