ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,440, issued on July 14, was assigned to Hamilton Sundstrand Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Stator assembly" was invented by Andrei Popescu (Coventry, Great Britain), Paul Charles Harris (Leighton, Great Britain), Aaron Christopher Day (Sevenoaks, Great Britain) and Thilak Raj Durairaj (Solihull, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stator assembly for an electrical machine, including stator teeth which are individually formed and are spaced azimuthally from each other. Each stator tooth includes an azimuthally extending central flange arranged to engage with the central flange of an adjacent stator tooth. The stator assembly inc...