ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,465, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan), TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Stator" was invented by Toshiya Sugiyama (Kariya, Japan), Munehiro Takahashi (Kariya, Japan), Keisuke Kimura (Kariya, Japan), Ken Takeda (Kariya, Japan), Takahito Nozawa (Toyota, Japan), Takashi Matsumoto (Toyota, Japan), Yoshitada Yamagishi (Okazaki, Japan), Katsuhide Kitagawa (Seto, Japan) and Hajime Kato (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In this stator, lead wire extended portions and a power wire extended portion are extended from a resin portion by an extended portion separating por...