ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,394, issued on June 24, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Motor assembly" was invented by Sunghyun Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Seonghun Seo (Seoul, South Korea), Honghyun Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Hwajung Jung (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor assembly includes a stator including a stator core, a stator coil, and an insulator, and a rotor. The stator core includes a yoke, a plurality of teeth, and a shoe. The insulator includes an insulator body wrapping and insulating an outer surface of the shoe so that an inner end of the shoe is exposed to outside, and a creepage distance extensi...