ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,045, issued on June 10, was assigned to MAKITA Corp. (Anjo, Japan).

"Electric work machine" was invented by Kei Kouda (Anjo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric work machine (1) includes: an inner-rotor-type brushless motor (6) having a stator (20) disposed around a rotor (30); and an output part (10), which is directly or indirectly driven by the rotor. The rotor comprises a rotor core (32) and eight permanent magnets (33) fixed to the rotor core. The stator comprises a stator core (21), one or more insulators (22, 23) fixed to the stator core, and six coils (24), which are respectively wound on teeth (21T) of the stato...