ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,556, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Rotating electric machine" was invented by Yuki Takahashi (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotating electric machine includes: a field system including a magnet section having a plurality of magnetic poles whose polarities alternate in a circumferential direction; and an armature arranged to face the field system and including a multi-phase armature coil. Either of the field system and the armature is configured as a rotor. The field system also includes a soft-magnetic core having at least one magnet-receiving hole in which the magnet section is recei...