ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,658,742, issued on June 16, was assigned to ROLLS-ROYCE plc (London).
"Electric machine" was invented by Seamus D Garvey (Nottingham, Great Britain), Mark J Boden (Derby, Great Britain) and Sophoclis Patsias (Stockport, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric machine includes a stator having a phase arrangement, and a rotor. The phase arrangement includes legs connected in parallel at first and second primary junctions. Each leg includes a plurality of coils connected in series through a respective intermediate junction. Each leg is connected to at least one other leg by a branch at the respective intermediate junctions ...