ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,559, issued on April 14, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Variable cross-section conductors to reduce alternating current losses for axial flux, radial flux and motors with skew" was invented by Vincent Fedida (Shanghai), Alan G. Holmes (Clarkston, Mich.), Alexander Forsyth (Windsor, Canada) and Jian Yao (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle electric motor system includes an electric motor having a rotor. Multiple windings are mounted on the rotors individually having a coiled conductor including multiple conductor elements. A width of successive ones of the conductor elements is varied. A...