ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,658,775, issued on June 16, was assigned to CHONGQING UNIVERSITY (Chongqing, China).

"Permanent magnet rotor magnetic coupling based on double-sided stepped structure and three-dimensional Halbach magnetic pole arrangement" was invented by Yi Qin (Chongqing, China), Yubo Xu (Chongqing, China), Fuqiang Liu (Chongqing, China), Lei Hou (Chongqing, China) and Gangxia Han (Chongqing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a permanent magnet rotor magnetic coupling based on a double-sided stepped structure and a three-dimensional Halbach magnetic pole arrangement, including a conductor outer rotor assembly (1), and a magnet inner ro...