ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,718, issued on May 20, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Molded coil, stator, and rotary electric machine" was invented by Yuya Maeda (Osaka, Japan), Yasuaki Matsushita (Kyoto, Japan) and Hirokazu Yamauchi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first molded coil that is one of two molded coils disposed adjacent to each other includes: a first winding part in which a conductor is stacked from a first turn to an n-th turn (n is an integer of 2 or more); and a first terminal part that has a lead part extending from a portion of the first turn of the first winding part in a direc...