ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,446, issued on March 17, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).
"Electric machine" was invented by Benjamin Eichinger (Winkelhaid, Germany) and Daniel Hackl (Painten, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric machine is provided including a stator, which is contained in a cooling jacket surrounding the stator about a periphery thereof, which cooling jacket is contained in a housing, wherein a plurality of outwardly protruding webs are provided on an outside of the cooling jacket, projecting in a direction of an inner wall of the housing, while between the webs and the inner wall there is provided a material which in...