ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,056, issued on March 24, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Multipart rotor for an electric machine, electric machine, and motor vehicle" was invented by Silko Feustel (Munich), Jerome Ragot (Munich) and Yann Tremaudant (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotor includes a magnetic field-generating component for producing a rotor magnetic field and a rotor core for holding the component. The rotor core has an annular rotor yoke and at least two rotor poles which are arranged on the rotor yoke and are configured in multiple parts, and each of which has a rotor tooth integrally formed on the rotor yoke and a po...