ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,425, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Valeo eAutomotive Germany GmbH (Erlangen, Germany).

"Electric machine with a closed coolant circuit, in particular for driving a vehicle" was invented by Philipp Soentgerath (Bad Neustadt a.d.Saale, Germany) and Boris Dotz (Bad Neustadt a.d.Saale, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric machine with a housing, a rotor with a rotor cooling channel, and a stator with stator cooling channels. The housing has a distribution system for guiding a coolant flow from the rotor cooling channel to the stator cooling channels."

The patent was filed on Dec. 20, 2023, under Application No. 18/3...