ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,023, issued on June 30, 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 Masaya Murashita (Mie, Japan) and Kazuhiro Inaba (Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reactor is provided with a coil and a magnetic core. The magnetic core includes a first core and a second core formed into a Theta shape by being combined in an X direction. The first core includes a first end core part, at least a part of a middle core part, at least parts of both side core parts i...