More Than 20 Patents for Programmable Magnet Core Technology Now Allowed

Online, June 17, 2010 (Newswire.com) - Correlated Magnetics Research LLC (CMR) is pleased to announce that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has allowed an additional 16 CMR patents to go along with the six patents that were allowed in January and February.

CMR's magnet technology enables the design of permanent and electro-magnets to meet precise application requirements by, for the first time, the programming of magnetic fields. CMR's coded magnets, or Magnits™, are programmed by assembling patterns of magnetic polarities in accordance with signal processing coding theory that determines how they interact. CMR has developed a broad range of behaviors for magnets including magnets that hover and other behaviors never seen before.

Magnetic force curves can now be engineered to affect near field and far field behaviors. Force curves can even be programmed to transition from attract forces to repel forces and vice versa. MagnitsTM can be coded to achieve very strong forces when aligned a certain way yet exhibit weak forces when aligned a different way. There are broad applications for coded magnet technology across a wide range of industries ranging from consumer electronics, to toys, medical devices, robotics, packaging, power generation, motors and many more.

Inventor Larry Fullerton, CEO and chief scientist of CMR, leveraged his background in communications and signal processing theory and applied these areas of expertise to magnetism, resulting in the invention of coded magnetic field structures. Since Fullerton's initial insight and subsequent invention in early 2008, CMR has embarked on a program of continuous research and development leading to more than 40 patent filings for core technology inventions and more than 30 patent filings for key implementations of the technology. Said Fullerton, "I'm very pleased at how quickly the Patent Office has been approving our patents and how broad coverage we have been granted. This was due to our coded magnet structures having much greater force ratios than that of conventional magnet structures. We now have very strong patent coverage for all magnetic structures having a peak force ratio greater than two, which is monumental."

Mark Roberts, president of CMR, said, "We've now received allowances for almost half of our pending core technology patent applications, which represents extraordinary patent protection for our programmable magnet technology. Among those recently allowed was the original patent application for correlated magnetics technology, which we filed in May 2008. It was allowed two years after filing, which is a very rare occurrence, especially for such a breakthrough, pioneering technology like ours. But what is truly amazing is that for the 22 applications that have been allowed - three of which have already issued - our patents are on average being allowed just 13-1/2 months after filing. We couldn't be more pleased with our patenting success."