ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,779, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"System and method for forming a hairpin for motors" was invented by Jiwon Yu (Ulsan, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are provided for forming a head portion and a leg portion of a hairpin applied to a hairpin type drive motor. The method includes: unwinding a material coil wound around a bobbin by an unwinder unit; flattening the material coil supplied from the unwinder unit by flattening rollers; cutting the material coil supplied from the flattening rollers to a preset length by a feed...