ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,594, issued on April 21, was assigned to MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Magnetic geared electrical machine, power generation system, and drive system" was invented by Masayuki Sakai (Tokyo), Yasutaka Aoki (Tokyo), Akihiko Umeda (Tokyo) and Atsushi Yuge (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic geared electrical machine includes: a stator; a magnetic pole piece rotor including a plurality of magnetic pole pieces disposed radially inward of the stator; an inner rotor including a plurality of rotor magnets, disposed radially inward of the plurality of magnetic pole pieces, and configured to rotate at a higher speed t...