ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,891, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Field magneton" was invented by Yuki Takahashi (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A field magneton constitutes a rotating electric machine including an armature having an armature winding and is arranged radially facing the armature. The field magneton includes a magnet having a plurality of magnetic poles with alternating polarities in a circumferential direction. The magnet is oriented so that a direction of an axis of easy magnetization on a d-axis side, which is a magnetic pole center, is closer to a direction of the d-axis than the direction of the ...