ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,618, issued on July 15, was assigned to Toshiba Industrial Products and Systems Corp. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Insulator, stator, and rotating electric machine" was invented by Takashi Araki (Mie-gun, Japan), Motoyasu Mochizuki (Mie-gun, Japan) and Masaaki Matsumoto (Mie-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An insulator according to an embodiment is attached to teeth extending from one side surface in a radial direction of a ring-shaped stator core in the radial direction. The insulator ensures insulation between the teeth and a rectangular wire wound around the teeth with a number of windings. The insulator includes an end-surface c...