ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,046, issued on March 24, was assigned to Mineba Mitsumi Inc. (Nagano, Japan).

"Stator with teeth skewed from the rotation axis" was invented by Peter Borsai (Tuttlingen, Germany) and Giovanni Biancuzzi (Freiburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stator, in particular for an electric machine, has a stator pack including a rotor receiving region configured to receive a rotor configured to be driven around a rotation axis within the rotor receiving region, and including at least one stator pole tooth which is surrounded by a coil surrounding a coil central axis and which includes a pole shoe adjacent to the rotor receiving regi...