ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,076, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Electric machine arrangement with a length compensating element" was invented by Dirk Reimnitz (Buhl, Germany) and Ivo Agner (Buhl, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric machine arrangement includes an electric machine having a stator and a rotor, a component supporting the stator, and an output element that is in contact with the rotor for conjoint rotation therewith. The stator is supported in the rotational direction via a length compensating element and is at least axially movably connected to the component support...