ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,338, issued on July 8, was assigned to MITSUBA Corp. (Gunma, Japan).

"Motor device and oil pump device" was invented by Shun Ogayu (Gunma, Japan), Hiroyuki Uchimura (Gunma, Japan), Hiroki Saito (Gunma, Japan), Tadamasa Endo (Gunma, Japan) and Masayuki Kamei (Gunma, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor device includes an electric motor, a control board on which a control circuit controlling the electric motor is mounted, a metal housing supporting a first surface of the control board, a resin cover attached to the housing to cover a second surface of the control board opposite to the first surface and the periphery of the contr...