US Patent Issued to GM Global Technology Operations on March 31 for "Rotor shaft-mounted vapor chambers and heat pipes with endcap heat sinks for electric machines" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,619, issued on March 31, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Rotor shaft-mounted vapor chambers and heat pipes with endcap heat sinks for electric machines" was invented by Muhammad A. Zahid (Troy, Mich.), Alexander Forsyth (Windsor, Canada), Khorshed Mohammed Alam (Canton, Mich.), Mazharul Chowdhury (Canton, Mich.) and Yilun Luo (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented are electric machines with rotor shaft-mounted heat pipes/vapor chambers thermally coupled to endcap-integrated heat sinks, methods for making/using such machines, and vehicles equipped with such machines. An electric mac...