ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,051, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Rotary electric machine" was invented by Tamon Yamada (Kariya, Japan), Jun Morimoto (Kariya, Japan), Tsuyoshi Tashima (Kariya, Japan), Tomohiro Aoyama (Kariya, Japan), Takeshi Wakana (Kariya, Japan) and Akihiro Utsumi (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotary electric machine includes a bus bar holder provided on one side of a stator in an axial direction, and a plurality of bus bar terminals that electrically connect the stator and a control unit. A lead wire is drawn out to a bus bar terminal side in an axial direction from a lead-out portion located...