ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,613, issued on May 26, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan) and JATCO LTD (Fuji, Japan).

"Rotating electric machine" was invented by Kazuki Eguchi (Kanagawa, Japan), Tatsuya Uchida (Kanagawa, Japan), Yiwei Zhao (Kanagawa, Japan), Fumio Honda (Kanagawa, Japan), Yusuke Suzuki (Iwata, Japan) and Yojiro Mochizuki (Fujinomiya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotating electric machine includes an inner housing and an outer housing. An inner circumferential surface of the outer housing includes a first cylindrical surface contacting first sealing member, a second cylindrical surface contacting a second sealing membe...