ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,674, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Rotor of an electric rotating machine and an electric rotating machine comprising such a rotor" was invented by Raf Schuermans (Brussels), Georgios Mamolis (Brussels) and Takahito Endo (Brussels).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotor of an electric motor includes several poles arranged circumferentially relative to the rotor, each pole having a first set proximate a rotor outer edge and a second set farther from the latter. The first and second sets are symmetrical relative to a d-axis. Each symmetrical part in the second set has two opposite ends terminati...