ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,823, issued on March 3, was assigned to Falcon Power LLC (Titusville, Fla.).

"Variable torque motor/generator/transmission" was invented by Harley C. McDonald (Merritt Island, Fla.), James L. Bailey (Titusville, Fla.) and Matthew C. McDonald (Merritt Island, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor/generator/transmission system includes: an axle; a stator ring having a plurality of stator coils disposed around the periphery of the stator ring, wherein each phase of the plurality of stator coils includes a respective set of multiple parallel non-twisted wires separated at the center tap with electronic switches for connecting the p...