ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,016, issued on July 28, was assigned to Proterial Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Multilayer magnetic sheet" was invented by Yasuo Kuriyama (Tokyo), Kouhei Miyano (Tokyo) and Yuichi Ogawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer magnetic sheet comprises ten or more layers of magnetic strips each formed in a band shape with a short side and a long side. The magnetic strips are aligned and arranged in a plate shape in each of the layers such that the long sides of the magnetic strips are adjacent to each other. The layers comprise first layers, in which the long sides of the adjacent magnetic strips overlap, and second layers, in which the lo...