ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,834, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to AMOTECH Co. LTD (Incheon, South Korea).

"Motor drive mechanism and hollow swivel actuator using same" was invented by Byung Soo Kim (Incheon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a motor drive mechanism and a hollow swivel actuator using same. The swivel actuator includes: an actuator housing having a hollow cylindrical part, protruding upward, in the center thereof; a motor drive mechanism provided with a worm gear, in the middle portion of a rotary shaft, which produces rotational outputs from first and second drive motors; a sun gear in which a spur gear is arranged on the up...