ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,473, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Rotating electrical machine" was invented by Hidenori Sasaki (Tokyo), Kenta Motoyoshi (Tokyo), Yu Hirotani (Tokyo), Hiroko Ikeda (Tokyo) and Shohei Fujikura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotating electrical machine includes a stator and a rotor, the rotor includes a rotor core and a plurality of magnetic poles, the plurality of magnetic poles includes a plurality of magnet poles formed by permanent magnets, and a plurality of dummy poles, the magnet poles and the dummy poles are alternately disposed in both an axial direction and a circumferential dir...