ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,475, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to FERRARI S.P.A. (Modena, Italy).

"Rotor for a rotary electric machine with end discs with progressively decreasing axial distance in between" was invented by Davide Ferrara (Modena, Italy), Paolo Faverzani (Modena, Italy) and Luca Poggio (Modena, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotor for a rotary electric machine and having: a support cylinder, which has an outer surface and a central cavity; a plurality of permanent magnets, which are axially oriented, rest on the outer surface of the support cylinder and are arranged beside one another around a rotation axis to form a closed ring; and two...