ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,413, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Motor and washing machine having same" was invented by Eunsuk Ko (Suwon-si, South Korea), Unyong Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jinwoo Cho (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jungin Min (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jongjin Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A washing machine including a tub, a stator fastenable to a rear of the tub, and a rotor to electromagnetically interact with the stator and rotate around a rotating shaft, where the stator includes a stator core, an insulator configured to surround the stator core, and a bracke...