ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,738, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Gree Electric Appliances Inc. of Zhuhai (Guangdong, China).

"Rotor assembly and self-starting permanent magnet synchronous reluctance motor" was invented by Yusheng Hu (Zhuhai, China), Bin Chen (Zhuhai, China), Yong Xiao (Zhuhai, China), Jinfei Shi (Zhuhai, China), Xia Li (Zhuhai, China) and Zhidong Zhang (Zhuhai, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides a rotor assembly and a self-starting permanent magnet synchronous reluctance motor. The rotor assembly includes a rotor core, wherein on a cross section of the rotor core, the rotor core is provided with slit slots,...