ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,548, issued on July 14, was assigned to BUHLER MOTOR GMBH (Nuremberg, Germany).

"Liquid pump permanent magnet rotor with plastic insert and channel arrangement" was invented by Helmut Kellermann (Langenzenn, Germany), Christian Zimmerer (Pottenstein, Germany), Thomas Stolpe (Eckental, Germany) and Dominik Neudert (Altdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A liquid pump with a housing in which a wound stator and electronics are arranged in a dry area. A permanent magnet rotor is arranged in a wet area. A shaft is held on the one hand in a pump head and on the other hand in a shaft receptacle in a containment shell. The containme...