ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,256, issued on July 7, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Magnetic material, powder magnetic core, inductor, and method of manufacturing powder magnetic core" was invented by Hironori Nagasaki (Osaka, Japan) and Junichi Kotani (Hyogo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic material includes an Fe-Si-Al-based metal magnetic powder. The Fe-Si-Al-based metal magnetic powder has the following relationships when the Si content is A % by weight and the Al content is B % by weight: 7.2% by weightless than equal toAless than equal to8.1% by weight, 6.0% by weightless than equal toBles...