US Patent Issued to Black & Decker on Dec. 16 for "Brushless motor having an overmolded rotor" (Maryland, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,479, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Black & Decker Inc. (New Britain, Conn.).

"Brushless motor having an overmolded rotor" was invented by John B. Fogle (White Hall, Md.), Colin M. Crosby (Baltimore), David J. Smith (Columbia, Md.), Merritt J. Tennison (Seattle) and Madhur M. Purohit (Towson, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric brushless DC motor is provided including a rotor assembly having a substantially-cylindrical metallic rotor body and at least one rotor magnet mounted on a surface of the rotor body, a stator assembly rotatably disposed relative to the rotor assembly, and a molded structure formed in contact wit...