ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,206, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Mahle International GmbH (Germany).

"Rotor assembly, and synchronous machine including the rotor assembly" was invented by Thorsten Grelle (Stuttgart, Germany), Florian Osdoba (Stuttgart, Germany), Penyo Topalov (Stuttgart, Germany) and Philipp Zimmerschied (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotor assembly for an inductively electrically excited synchronous machine may include a hollow shaft, a rotor connected to the hollow shaft, and a secondary-side circuit of an energy transmitter. The secondary-side circuit may be arranged in a rotationally fixed manner in the rotor assemb...