ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,436, issued on March 17, was assigned to DR. ING. H.C. F. PORSCHE AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Stator assembly for an electric machine" was invented by Tobias Engelhardt (Stuttgart, Germany), Michael Reinlein (Nuremberg, Germany), David Bauer (Asperg, Germany), Johannes Wende (Heilbronn, Germany) and Thomas Hubert (Leonberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stator assembly for an electric machine, including a sheet metal package, a winding assembly, and a collimator. The sheet metal package includes sheets and extends between a first and second axial end. The sheets include grooves forming groove pockets in the sheet metal pack...