ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,321, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to ZHEJIANG SANHUA AUTOMOTIVE COMPONENTS Co. LTD. (Zhejiang, China).

"Electric pump" was invented by Jun Zhang (Zhejiang, China), Jundi Hu (Zhejiang, China) and Bingjiu Yin (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric pump includes a first housing, a stator assembly, and a pin. The first housing is injection-molded by using the stator assembly as an insert and fixed to the stator assembly by injection molding, and is provided with a pin hole for placing the pin. Thus, the fixation of a pump housing, the stator assembly and the pin is facilitated to be simplified."

The patent was fi...