US Patent Issued to E-Circuit Motors on April 21 for "Selectively pocketed back iron for axial flux machines" (Montana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,567, issued on April 21, was assigned to E-Circuit Motors Inc. (Needham Heights, Mass.).

"Selectively pocketed back iron for axial flux machines" was invented by Steven Robert Shaw (Bozeman, Mont.) and George Harder Milheim (Bozeman, Mont.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotor component for a motor or generator may include a support structure made of a magnetic material, a first magnet, and a second magnet. The first magnet may be attached to a first portion of the support structure to form a first magnetic pole of the motor or generator, and the second magnet may be attached to a second portion of the support structure to form a s...