US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on March 3 for "Segmented interior permanent magnet electric machine" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,776, issued on March 3, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Segmented interior permanent magnet electric machine" was invented by Mazharul Chowdhury (Canton, Mich.), Le Chang (Shelby Township, Mich.), William Robert Jensen (Walled Lake, Mich.), Mohammad F. Momen (Rochester Hills, Mich.) and Alan Del Rio (Clawson, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interior permanent magnet electric machine includes a stator and a rotor. The rotor features a rotor core with slots extending between its opposite ends. These slots contain a segmented magnet assembly, which includes magnet segments of different magnetic ma...