ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,087, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Motor" was invented by Mingyu Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Youngjin Ji (Seoul, South Korea), Honghyun Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Gyujong Jeong (Seoul, South Korea) and Jinsub Lim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor includes a housing, a bearing disposed in the housing, a rotating shaft rotatably coupled to the bearing, an impeller cover disposed on an upper part of the housing, an impeller disposed inside the impeller cover and coupled to the rotating shaft, a magnet coupled to a lower area of the rotating shaft, a stator coupled to ...