ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,194, issued on May 27, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Rotary electric machine" was invented by Jun Kawakami (Anjo, Japan) and Takashi Matsumoto (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotary electric machine including a stator and a rotor. The stator includes: (a) a stator core provided with a plurality of teeth are spaced apart by a plurality of voids; (b) a plurality of coils which are wound on the teeth, and which are disposed in the voids, and (c) a plurality of mold resin portions which fill the voids, and which cover the coils. The mold resin portions have respective resin surfaces which are subst...