ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,466, issued on July 14, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Cooler, housing, and rotating electric machine" was invented by Yuji Ono (Wako, Japan), Keiji Tada (Wako, Japan), Hiroshi Nagami (Wako, Japan), Masaki Sato (Wako, Japan) and Yoshiyuki Hoshi (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cooler includes a base material, and a plurality of ribs protruding from a main surface of the base material, a distance between a base end of a first rib and a base end of a second rib in a second direction is larger than a distance between a protruding end of the first rib and a protruding end of the second rib in the second direc...