ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,776, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo) and OSAKA UNIVERSITY (Osaka, Japan).

"Permanent magnet-type rotary electric machine" was invented by Haruyuki Kometani (Tokyo), Ryoji Miyatake (Tokyo), Takuro Yamada (Tokyo), Kenji Tanaka (Tokyo), Katsuhiro Hirata (Suita, Japan), Noboru Niguchi (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: "A permanent magnet-type rotary electric machine includes a stator, a first rotor, and a second rotor. The stator includes a stator core, a plurality of stator teeth, a plurality of...