ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,451, issued on March 17, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Rotor device for an electric machine including a cooling fluid line, a collecting ring, and an adapter" was invented by Benjamin Krank (Munich), Simon Strasinsky (Neufahrn bei Freising, Germany) and Bernhard Wolf (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotor device for an electric machine, comprising: a rotor which comprises a rotor laminated core having a plurality of pole legs which project radially from a central axis of the rotor and can be wrapped around by respective rotor windings; at least one cooling fluid line, which extends in the circumferen...