ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,779, issued on March 3, was assigned to Hitachi Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Rotating electric machine, electric wheel, and vehicle" was invented by Akeshi Takahashi (Tokyo), Tetsuya Suto (Tokyo) and Makoto Ito (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The rotating electric machine includes a stator having a stator core around which a plurality of coils are wound; a rotor supported to be rotatable relative to the stator with a predetermined gap therebetween; a rotor case that holds the rotor; and a first bearing and a second bearing that rotatably support the rotor case. The rotating electric machine includes: a first flow path formation body that for...