ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,497, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to IHI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Electrical rotating device with segmented partition wall" was invented by Tetsuyuki Terauchi (Tokyo) and Takehiro Jikumaru (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical rotating device includes a hollow cylindrical stator provided with a stator core and a stator coil, a rotor provided rotatably inside the stator, a case that houses the stator and the rotor, and a hollow cylindrical partition wall that is made of electrically conductive metal and partitions an interior space of the case into an inner space with respect to the stator and an accommodation space in which a...