ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,453, issued on June 23, was assigned to TAU MOTORS INC. (Redwood City, Calif.).
"Electric motors" was invented by Walter Wesley Pennington III (Los Altos, Calif.), Matthew J Rubin (Indianapolis), Gregory Gordon Stevenson (San Carlos, Calif.) and Michael Parker Owen (Raleigh, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stator defines multiple stator poles with associated electrical windings. A rotor includes multiple rotor poles. The rotor is movable with respect to the stator and defines, together with the stator, a nominal gap between the stator poles and the rotor poles. The rotor poles includes a magnetically permeable pole material. Th...