ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,672, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. Kommanditesellschaft Wurzburg (Wurzburg, Germany).
"Permanent magnetic with slot-shaped recesses" was invented by Shunli Zhang (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Wei Zhang (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic element for an electric machine is formed of a single-piece magnetic body made of a permanently magnetic material. The magnetic body has two longitudinal sides extending in a longitudinal direction and two transverse sides extending in a cross direction. A number of mutually parallel, slit-shaped first recesses are formed in the magnetic body. The firs...