ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,202, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Rotor of an electric machine having a multi-layered permanent magnet arrangement" was invented by Peter Theisinger (Markgroeningen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a rotor (1) of an electric machine (10), comprising a rotor body (2) which can be rotated about a rotor axis (100), has an outer circumference (8) and a plurality of rotor poles (5) and is formed by a stack of laminations, each rotor pole (5) having a central pole axis (101) and an arrangement of permanent magnets (4) arranged in pockets (6, 7) of the ro...