ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,783, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to E-Circuit Motors Inc. (Needham Heights, Mass.).

"Axial flux machine and low-profile cooling apparatus" was invented by Steven Robert Shaw (Bozeman, Mont.), George Harder Milheim (Bozeman, Mont.) and Mark Puglia (Brookline, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An axial flux machine may include a rotor, a first stator, and a second stator. The rotor may generate first magnetic flux within an active region and may have a first generally annular surface oriented normal to its axis of rotation. The first stator may generate second magnetic flux within the active region so that interaction of the s...