ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,965, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Garrett Transportation I Inc. (Torrance, Calif.).
"Refrigerant cooled electric motor" was invented by Poomkuzhimannil John (Bangalore, India), Suryakant Gupta (Bangalore, India), Vignesh K K (Bangalore, India) and Kishmor Kumar K (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric motor including a motor housing having an inlet for receiving a refrigerant and a first outlet for coupling the refrigerant to a centrifugal compressor, an electric motor including a stator, a rotor and a shaft mechanically coupled to the rotor, an inner sleeve disposed within the motor housing for mechanical...