ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,473, issued on June 23, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).

"Fixing structure for neutral wire and temperature sensor" was invented by Junpei Yamada (Kariya-city, Japan), Takemasa Yamamoto (Kariya-city, Japan) and Koichi Terada (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fixing structure for fixing a neutral wire and a temperature sensor fixes the neutral wire forming a neutral point of a stator coil and the temperature sensor. The fixing structure has a plurality of protruding portions that protrude from the neutral wire in a direction away from a current path in the neutral wire during energization and are op...