US Patent Issued to Anthropocene Institute on March 17 for "Axial flux switched reluctance and inductance state machine systems, devices, and methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,465, issued on March 17, was assigned to Anthropocene Institute LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Axial flux switched reluctance and inductance state machine systems, devices, and methods" was invented by Scott Bartlett (San Pablo, Calif.), Martin Pena (Pinole, Calif.) and Carl Page (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A state machine includes a state machine having a stator assembly arranged to generate a rotating electromagnetic field in response to a control signal. The stator assembly includes a plurality of stator poles, each of the plurality of stator poles includes a coil wound normal to an axis of rotation of a rotor as...