ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,420, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Electric motor, air conditioner, and control board" was invented by Junichiro Oya (Tokyo), Mineo Yamamoto (Tokyo), Hiroyuki Ishii (Tokyo), Hiroki Aso (Tokyo) and Yoshiyuki Takashima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric motor includes: a stator; a rotor; and a built-in board that supplies current to the stator, wherein the built-in board includes: a high-voltage circuit connected to a high-voltage power supply; and a low-voltage circuit connected to a low-voltage power supply, the high-voltage circuit includes an inverter that converts an input dire...