ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,824, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Electric axial flux machine with pretensioned stator components, and electric machine assembly comprising such an electric axial flux machine" 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 axial flux machine including a stator which has at least one stator half, a rotor which is arranged axially to the stator and which is rotatably mounted relative to the stator, and a rotor shaft which contacts the rotor in a rotationally fixed manner. A magnetic force acts ...