ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,679, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Valeo eAutomotive Germany GmbH (Erlangen, Germany).

"Electric machine and stator for it with improved arrangement of conductors of a stator winding" was invented by Dotz Boris (Bad Neustadt a.d. Saale, Germany) and Ibrahim Afinowi (Bad Neustadt a.d. Saale, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stator for an electric machine is specified in which electrical conductors of a stator winding are arranged, layered only radially in a plurality of layers, in a stator slot. Two stator slots which are arranged next to one another are combined to form blocks (G) of one phase (U, V, W). In the blocks (G...