ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,050, issued on March 24, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Flux concentrate type rotor having arc type permanent magnets" was invented by Younggeun Min (Seoul, South Korea), Hongsik Hwang (Seoul, South Korea), Kyungmo Yu (Seoul, South Korea), Jaeho Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Kyungho Ha (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flux concentrate type rotor includes a rotor core including an inner diameter portion core, a plurality of outer diameter portion cores, and a plurality of bridges connecting the plurality of outer diameter portion cores to the inner diameter portion core, and a plurality ...