ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,092, issued on July 1, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Method for manufacturing coil" was invented by Suguru Nakayama (Kariya, Japan), Shunsuke Koyabu (Kariya, Japan), Takahisa Kanie (Kariya, Japan) and Akinori Hoshino (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a coil with an insulating film 130 is provided that includes: a preparation step of preparing a formed workpiece W to which the insulating film has not yet been applied; and an electrodeposition coating step of generating, with the workpiece W immersed in an electrodeposition bath, a potential difference between a first electrode conn...