ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,446, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to JFE STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Non-oriented electrical steel sheet" was invented by Yoshiaki Zaizen (Tokyo), Yukino Miyamoto (Tokyo), Yoshihiko Oda (Tokyo), Tomoyuki Okubo (Tokyo) and Souichiro Yoshizaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Low iron loss and high magnetic flux density in a Si-gradient magnetic material are achieved. A non-oriented electrical steel sheet is a multilayer electrical steel sheet comprising of an inner layer and a surface layer located on each of both sides of the inner layer, wherein the surface layer and the inner layer have predetermined chemical compositions, tria...