US Patent Issued to CANON on Sept. 8 for "Motor and article" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,082, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Motor and article" was invented by Takeshi Yamamoto (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor including a first part having an outer peripheral portion and a second part having an inner peripheral portion facing the outer peripheral portion, the first part and the second part being configured to rotate relative to each other, includes a plurality of coils on one of the outer peripheral portion and the inner peripheral portion, and a plurality of magnets on the other of the outer peripheral portion and the inner peripheral portion at positions facing the plural...