ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,705, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to KOLON INDUSTRIES INC. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Alloy composition, alloy powder, alloy ribbon, inductor, and motor" was invented by Su Min Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Choongnyun Paul Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A soft magnetic core of an inductor or a motor core includes an alloy having a composition of Fe, Si, B, P, Cu, and Y, and the soft magnetic core or the motor core has a composite structure in which crystal grains including Fe are dispersed in an amorphous phase. Also, the alloy is expressed by the compositional formula FeaSibBcPdCueYfCg, wherein a to g satisfy 8...