ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,239, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Reactor, converter, and power conversion device" was invented by Kazuhiro Inaba (Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a reactor that can prevent a short circuit from occurring between turns of a coil even if a foreign object is present between turns. The reactor includes: an edgewise coil formed by a flat rectangular wire; a magnetic core; and a molded resin part that covers at least a portion of the magnetic core, wherein the edgewise co...