ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,059, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Fan motor" was invented by Joongkeun Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Jeongho Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Taeyong Jung (Seoul, South Korea) and Seongho Cho (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fan motor includes a housing, a stator assembly disposed inside the housing, a rotor assembly rotatably disposed inside the stator assembly, an impeller configured to generate a flow of air in the housing based on receiving power from the rotor assembly, a first housing cover disposed at one side of the housing, a first bearing disposed in the first hou...