US Patent Issued to GM Global Technology Operations on Sept. 15 for "Rotor for electric machine" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,782, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Rotor for electric machine" was invented by Mazharul Chowdhury (Canton, Mich.), Cheongun Han (Novi, Mich.), Michael C. Muir (Troy, Mich.), Mohammad F. Momen (Rochester Hills, Mich.) and Edward L. Kaiser (Orion, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotor for an electric machine including a rotor core having a plurality of circumferentially spaced rotor poles. Each rotor pole may include a plurality of rotor slots arranged into one or more magnetic layers and one or more non-magnetic layers. The magnetic layers may include a magnet within one or...