ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,827, issued on April 7, was assigned to MITSUBA Corp. (Gunma, Japan).

"Control device, motor device, and oil pump device" was invented by Shun Ogayu (Gunma, Japan), Hiroyuki Uchimura (Gunma, Japan), Hiroki Saito (Gunma, Japan), Tadamasa Endo (Gunma, Japan) and Masayuki Kamei (Gunma, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device includes a control board on which a control circuit for controlling an electric motor is mounted, a housing that supports a surface on a side of the control board in a thickness direction, and a cover attached to the housing to cover a surface on the other side of the control board in the thickness dir...