ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,594, issued on March 31, was assigned to MIDEA WELLING MOTOR TECHNOLOGY (SHANGHAI) Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Rotor structure, motor structure, and laundry treatment device" was invented by Xiong Yang (Shanghai) and Wenrui Li (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotor structure, a motor structure, and a laundry treatment device are provided. The rotor structure has a rotor iron core, multiple permanent magnets and multiple magnetic barriers. The rotor has multiple permanent magnet slots arranged along a circumferential direction of the rotor core. The permanent magnets are disposed in the permanent magnet slots respectively. The ma...