ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,486, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Stator with coat-removed portions of electrical conductor wires and method of manufacturing same" was invented by Norio Kamegawa (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stator has a stator coil provided on an annular stator core. The stator coil is formed of electrical conductor wires each including an electrical conductor and an insulating coat. Each of the electrical conductor wires has a pair of exposed portions where the electrical conductor is exposed from the insulating coat and a covered portion where the electrical conductor is covered with the insula...