US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on April 7 for "Induction rotor assembly with thin foils" (Michigan, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,836, issued on April 7, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Induction rotor assembly with thin foils" was invented by Qigui Wang (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Yi Liu (Troy, Mich.), Liang Wang (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Lei Hao (Troy, Mich.), Steven L. Burkholder (Archbold, Ohio) and Jason J. Coryell (Rochester Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An induction rotor assembly is provided. The induction rotor assembly includes a laminated stack, a plurality of foils, a plurality of conductor bars, a first end ring, and a second end ring. The laminated stack includes a body with an outer circumferential surf...