ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,511, issued on May 5, was assigned to Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis), UT-BATTELLE LLC (Oak Ridge, Tenn.) and UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE RESEARCH FOUNDATION.
"Iron nitride magnetic material including coated nanoparticles" was invented by Jian-Ping Wang (Shoreview, Minn.), Yanfeng Jiang (Minneapolis), Craig A. Bridges (Knoxville, Tenn.), Michael P. Brady (Oak Ridge, Tenn.), Orlando Rios (Knoxville, Tenn.), Roberta A. Meisner (Knoxville, Tenn.), Lawrence F. Allard Jr. (Knoxville, Tenn.), Edgar Lara-Curzio (Lenoir City, Tenn.) and Shihai He (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure describes techniqu...