ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,305, issued on July 8, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Rotating electrical machine" was invented by Yuki Takahashi (Kariya, Japan) and Aki Fukuhara (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotating electrical machine equipped with a magnetic field-producing unit which includes a magnet unit having magnets each of which has easy axes of magnetization oriented to extend linearly parallel to each other and defines a plurality of magnetic paths along the easy axes of magnetization. The magnets are discrete from each other through a d-axis defined on the center of the magnetic pole and a q-axis defined on a magnetic bo...