ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,439, issued on March 17, was assigned to LG INNOTEK Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Motor including a joint including first and second step parts for improving robustness against an axial load" was invented by Kyoung Min Park (Seoul, South Korea), Ju Hwan Ku (Seoul, South Korea) and Jae Young Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention may provide a motor including a housing, a stator disposed in the housing, a rotor disposed in the stator, and a shaft coupled to the rotor, wherein the housing includes a first housing, the first housing includes a main body, a flange, and a joint disposed between the...