ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,564, issued on April 21, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).

"Rotary electric machine" was invented by Hiroyuki Tsuchiya (Kariya-city, Japan), Shinichi Okada (Kariya-city, Japan), Shinji Koda (Kariya-city, Japan), Akito Tamura (Kariya-city, Japan) and Yuki Mawatari (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotary electric machine includes a rotor including a plurality of magnetic poles, a stator including a multi-phase stator winding, a power line that supplies power to the stator winding, and a rotation sensor that detects a rotational position of the rotor. The stator and the rotor face each other on the i...