US Patent Issued to Rivian IP Holdings on Oct. 27 for "Motor cooling" (California, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,677, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Motor cooling" was invented by Fan Wu (Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.), Khwaja Rahman (Troy, Mich.), Dang Dinh Dang (Garden Grove, Calif.), Larry Thoua Xiong (Lawndale, Calif.) and Shreyas Kapatral (Fullerton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure relate to an electric motor with cooling features. A motor can provide cooling with a flow of fluid through channels that contain the magnets of the rotor. This provides cooling where it is most beneficial to the magnets, which can then be selected without requiring as much resil...