ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,139, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Electric rotating machine apparatus and electric power steering apparatus" was invented by Satoshi Iohara (Tokyo), Yusuke Kobayashi (Tokyo), Wataru Ozaki (Tokyo) and Yoshikuni Tomioka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an electric rotating machine apparatus according to the present disclosure, there is adopted a structure in which an extending portion of a control circuit board on which a power module for supplying electric power to windings and a driving circuit for the power module are mounted passes through an external-connection opening portion of a...