ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,986, issued on June 2, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).
"Electric motor with asymmetrical permanent magnet layout and inter-polar bridge inbetween magnets" was invented by Vincent Fedida (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric motor includes a stator and a rotor. The rotor includes a rotor core and a plurality of permanent magnets each disposed in one of the plurality of rotor cavities. The rotor core includes a plurality of polar pieces arranged annularly about the rotational axis. The plurality of permanent magnets includes a first permanent magnet and a second permanent magnet. The first p...