ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,447, issued on June 23, was assigned to Hitachi Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Laminated iron core and rotating electric machine using the same" was invented by Matahiro Komuro (Tokyo), Tomohiro Tabata (Tokyo), Yusuke Asari (Tokyo) and Shohei Terada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a laminated iron core in which a plurality of types of soft magnetic iron plates are laminated. The plurality of types of the soft magnetic iron plates include a first soft magnetic iron plate and a second soft magnetic iron plate, the first soft magnetic iron plate and the second soft magnetic iron plate are alternately laminated, the first soft ma...