ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,518, issued on May 5, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto-fu, Japan).

"Magnetic particles and method for producing same, magnetic core, and coil component" was invented by Ryota Saisho (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Hironobu Kubota (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Magnetic particles, each including a core made of a metal magnetic material and a coating film which covers a surface of the core, in which the coating film contains a reaction product formed using a first metal alkoxide containing no metal atom-carbon atom bond in a molecule, and a second metal alkoxide containing two or more metal atom-carbon atom...