US Patent Issued to Regents of the University of Minnesota on May 12 for "Iron nitride compositions" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,428, issued on May 12, was assigned to Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis).

"Iron nitride compositions" was invented by Jian-Ping Wang (Shoreview, Minn.), YanFeng Jiang (Minneapolis), Md Mehedi (Minneapolis), Yiming Wu (Shoreview, Minn.), Bin Ma (Roseview, Minn.), Jinming Liu (Minneapolis) and Delin Zhang (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "All example composition may include a plurality of grains including an iron nitride phase. The plurality of grains may have an average wain size between about 10 nm and about 200 nm. An example technique may include treating a composition including a plurality of grains inc...