ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,721, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to LG INNOTEK Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Motor" was invented by Yong Chul Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment can provide a motor comprising: a shaft; a rotor coupled to the shaft; a stator disposed on the outer side of the rotor; and a bus bar which has a terminal unit connected to a coil of the stator and which is disposed above the stator, wherein the terminal unit includes a plurality of terminal groups the circuits of which are separated, and the plurality of terminal groups are arranged to form different layers in the axial direction of the shaft and are...