ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,342, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to MAZDA MOTOR Corp. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Vehicle driving motor having secondary conductors for magnetic flux guidance" was invented by Kei Yonemori (Aki-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor includes a stator having a cylindrical shape and a rotor having a cylindrical shape provided in the stator and is rotatable about a central axis of the stator and is used to drive a driving wheel of a vehicle by rotation of the rotor. The rotor has a cage and a plurality of permanent magnets provided on an inner side of the cage and disposed side by side in a circumferential direction. The cage in...