US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on July 28 for "Bearing current discharge assemblies for electric vehicles" (Michigan, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,353, issued on July 28, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Bearing current discharge assemblies for electric vehicles" was invented by Sen Jiang Zhou (Troy, Mich.), David J. Varda (West Bloomfield, Mich.), Bradford E. Vorbeck (Clarkston, Mich.), Zachary Strand (Salem, Ore.) and Timothy J. Reinhart (Lake Orion, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A current discharge assembly for an electric machine in an electric vehicle, includes a rotor shaft defining a channel, a ground element positioned within the channel, and a connector positioned within the channel of the rotor shaft and extending circumferentiall...