ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,915, issued on April 14, was assigned to MAG IA INC. (Austin, Texas).
"Automatic magnetic impurity sample isolation" was invented by Jongwook Mah (Austin, Texas) and Hoang Elliot Willis (Pflugerville, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and associated methods relate to separate ferromagnetic impurities from bulk battery materials. In an illustrative example, a ferromagnetic impurity separation system (FISS) may receive a sample vessel including an enclosed sample of bulk battery materials. The FISS, for example, may include a variable magnetic flux generator (e.g., an electromagnet) disposed at a position separated from t...