ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,570, issued on April 21, was assigned to IHI Corp. (Koto-ku, Japan).

"Stator with flat angle coils with varying width and teeth having widened portions" was invented by Fuminori Suzuki (Koto-ku, Japan), Takehiro Jikumaru (Koto-ku, Japan), Koji Yamaguchi (Koto-ku, Japan), Yosuke Akamatsu (Koto-ku, Japan), Masatsugu Takemoto (Sapporo, Japan) and Sho Manabe (Sapporo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stator includes a stator core having a plurality of slots opening toward an inner surface and a plurality of teeth formed between the slots adjacent to each other; and flat angle coils wound around the teeth respectively. Each of the ...