ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,846, issued on April 22, was assigned to NIPPON STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Stator core, rotary electric machine, and design method for stator core" was invented by Yasuo Ohsugi (Tokyo), Miho Tomita (Tokyo) and Tesshu Murakawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is a stator core having a plurality of laminated electrical steel sheets, in which, among a plurality of teeth (121a to 121p) of the stator core, a width of teeth along a direction in which magnetic characteristics are excellent may be narrower than a width of teeth along a direction in which the magnetic characteristics are poor."

The patent was filed on No...