ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,420, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to SunRay Scientific Inc. (Wall, N.J.).

"Capacitors from magnetic particles" was invented by Andrew Stemmermann (Long Branch, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Compositions and methods for creating in situ capacitors, micro-capacitors, battery like applications, and chipless memory chips are provided. The methods and compositions all comprise the use of magnetically-alignable particles. In various applications herein the particles may be nonconductive, in another aspect, the particles are conductive. The functional capacitors entail the ferromagnetic particles and a dielectric material or a no...