ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,718, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to LG INNOTEK Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Motor" was invented by Jae Young Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention may provide a motor including a shaft, a rotor coupled to the shaft, a stator disposed to correspond to the rotor, a bearing which supports the shaft, and a shaft guide which supports the bearing, wherein the shaft guide includes a first groove in which the shaft is disposed, an outer surface of the shaft guide includes a first surface and a second surface, the first surface is in contact with an inner circumferential surface of an inner ring o...