ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,947, issued on June 9, was assigned to NIDEC POWERTRAIN SYSTEMS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Rotary electric machine and pump" was invented by Shigehiro Kataoka (Kanagawa, Japan), Tomohiro Sakata (Kanagawa, Japan) and Heng Cao (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aspect of a rotary electric machine of the disclosure includes: a rotor, able to rotate about a central axis as a center; a stator, opposite to the rotor, with a gap being interposed between the rotor and the stator; a substrate, electrically connected with the stator; a first housing, formed of metal, being open on a side in an axial direction, and accommodating t...