ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,278, issued on May 6, was assigned to LG INNOTEK Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Motor" was invented by Hee Chul Jung (Seoul, South Korea) and Chang Hyun Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention can provide a motor including a housing, a stator disposed in the housing, a rotor disposed inside the stator, and a shaft coupled to the rotor, wherein the stator includes a stator core in contact with the housing, the stator core includes a first region and a second region having different outer diameters, the housing includes a third region and a fourth region having different inner diameters, the outer...