US Patent Issued to SAES Getters, STRUMENTI SCIENTIFICI CINEL on Sept. 8 for "NEG-coated permanent magnet" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,707, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SAES Getters S.p.A. (Lainate, Italy) and STRUMENTI SCIENTIFICI CINEL S.R.L. (Vigonza, Italy).

"NEG-coated permanent magnet" was invented by Paolo Manini (Milan), Michele Mura (Arona, Italy), Tommaso Porcelli (Milan) and Riccardo Signorato (Vigonza, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A permanent magnet usable for an ultra-high vacuum atmosphere is made of a magnetic alloy coated with a non-evaporable getter (NEG) layer made of a binary, ternary or quaternary NEG alloy containing elements selected among Ti, Zr, V, Hf, Nb, Fe, Al and Cu which comprises at least Zr from 20 to 85 at % and V from 8...