US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Aug. 25 for "Electric motor speed-independent symmetric coolant flow design" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,320, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Electric motor speed-independent symmetric coolant flow design" was invented by Matthew Schmitt (Southgate, Mich.), Joel Hetrick (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Devan Anderson (Taylor, Mich.), Jeremy Ikerd (Eastpointe, Mich.), Bharath Madduri (Canton, Mich.), Chin-Yuan Perng (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Sudhir Kumar (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric motor may be provided having a rotor shaft having an internal oil channel therein and a plurality of radial feed oil channels positioned about a middle and center of the rotor shaft, a rotor ...