ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,340, issued on July 28, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Motor" was invented by Woong Hwang (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Wonsoo Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor comprising a stator; and a rotor surrounded in a circumferential direction of the rotor by the stator, wherein the rotor includes: a sleeve including an axial hole extending in a first direction, a plurality of rotor cores spaced apart from each other around the sleeve in the circumferential direction of the rotor, a plurality of permanent magnets respectively arranged, between each two adjacent rotor core...