ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,053, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to NHK Spring Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Stator" was invented by Keiichi Ito (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a stator, one end portion of each coil is disposed on the root side of each tooth, and other end portion of the coil is disposed on the tip end side of the tooth. A first bus bar disposed on one side in the axial direction with respect to a stator core has each of a plurality of first joining portions each extended toward the root side of each tooth and joined to the one end portion of each coil. A second bus bar disposed on one side or the other side in the axial direc...