US Patent Issued to Niron Magnetics on Oct. 6 for "Anisotropic iron nitride permanent magnets" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,878, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Niron Magnetics Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Anisotropic iron nitride permanent magnets" was invented by Francis Johnson (Minneapolis), Richard W. Greger (Saint Paul, Minn.), John Michael Larson (Northfield, Minn.), Yiming Wu (Shorview, Minn.), Fan Zhang (Saint Paul, Minn.) and Kathryn Sara Damien (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a permanent magnet comprising: a plurality of aligned iron nitride nanoparticles wherein the iron nitride nanoparticles include Alpha"-Fe16N2 phase domains; wherein a ratio of integrated intensities of an Alpha"-Fe16N2 (004) x-ray diffraction peak ...