ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,778, issued on March 3, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Electric motor with stator booster and methods of manufacturing an electric motor with a stator booster" was invented by Akash Changarankumarath Pradeepkumar (Westland, Mich.) and Singar Rathnam (Farmington Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor includes a stator core and a stator booster. The stator booster includes a booster back-iron and a plurality of booster teeth. The booster back-iron includes a first end surface that abuts a first end surface of the stator core's back-iron for electrical communication therewith. The booster t...