ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,092, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Mazda Motor Corp. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Manufacturing device and manufacturing method for laminated core" was invented by Kaito Narahara (Aki-gun, Japan), Soichiro Ikeda (Aki-gun, Japan), Shintaro Baba (Aki-gun, Japan), Shigehiro Furuya (Aki-gun, Japan), Kenji Matsuki (Aki-gun, Japan) and Taku Hyodo (Aki-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A manufacturing device includes: an upper plate on which a plunger is mounted; a lower plate arranged under the upper plate; and a tray placed on it, on which a laminated core body is mounted. The tray includes: a cylindrical section inserted in a shaft ...