ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,072, issued on May 20, was assigned to MITSUBISHI GENERATOR Co. LTD. (Kobe, Japan).

"Inspection device for rotary electric machine and inspection system for rotary electric machine" was invented by Naoya Kadota (Tokyo), Daichi Goto (Tokyo), Yoshihiro Morimoto (Tokyo), Daisuke Mizuno (Tokyo) and Yasuki Hattori (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inspection device includes: a base; a linear motion mechanism which performs linear motion; a link mechanism which has a driven link connected to the base, and which extends/contracts by the linear motion performed by the linear motion mechanism; a connection mechanism for connecting betw...