ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,006, issued on June 2, was assigned to Innomotics GmbH (Nuremberg, Germany).

"Method for producing a rotor of an asynchronous machine" was invented by Klaus Buttner (Hollstadt, Germany), Klaus Kirchner (Windshausen, Germany) and Matthias Warmuth (Ostheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a rotor of an asynchronous machine includes providing a rotor lamination stack having grooves extending parallel to a rotor axis of the rotor, inserting conductor rods into the grooves such that the conductor rods protrude from end faces of the rotor lamination stack, wherein a twisting tool is placed at each of the end fa...