ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,789, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo) and OSAKA University (Osaka, Japan).

"Magnetic strain wave gear device" was invented by Yosuke Uchida (Tokyo), Ryoji Miyatake (Tokyo), Atsushi Yamamoto (Tokyo), Haruyuki Kometani (Tokyo), Noboru Niguchi (Suita, Japan), Katsuhiro Hirata (Suita, Japan), Kazuaki Takahara (Suita, Japan), Hironori Suzuki (Suita, Japan) and Takuya Ito (Suita, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a magnetic strain wave gear device that makes it possible to achieve both improvement of the efficiency of assembly work and suppression of decrease in energy conversion efficienc...