ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,498, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Rotary electric machine" was invented by Satoko Kawato (Kariya, Japan), Satoshi Murakami (Kariya, Japan), Naoto Saito (Kariya, Japan), Yasunobu Shiotsuki (Kariya, Japan) and Mitsumasa Anzawa (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotary electric machine includes a stator including teeth around which coils are wound, a rotor including a shaft of a hollow shape and a core member around which field windings are wound, the core member being coaxially fixed to the shaft, the rotor being disposed coaxially with the stator with a gap provided radially between the...