US Patent Issued to TOHOKU UNIVERSITY, PROTERIAL on June 23 for "Permanent magnet alloy, method for producing the same, permanent magnet, and method for producing the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,110, issued on June 23, was assigned to TOHOKU UNIVERSITY (Miyagi, Japan) and PROTERIAL LTD. (Tokyo).

"Permanent magnet alloy, method for producing the same, permanent magnet, and method for producing the same" was invented by Ryosuke Kainuma (Sendai, Japan), Toshihiro Omori (Sendai, Japan), Xiao Xu (Sendai, Japan), Naoki Hashimoto (Sendai, Japan) and Tomohito Maki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A permanent magnet alloy according to the present disclosure contains Mn at a content not lower than 41% by atom and not higher than 53% by atom; Al at a content not lower than 46% by atom and not higher than 53% by atom; and Cu at a c...