ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,617, issued on July 15.

"Drive equipment for an electric vehicle, and vehicle" was invented by Boris Dotz (Erlangen, Germany) and Daniel Fritsch (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Drive equipment for an electric vehicle is disclosed with a stator which is configured for generating a magnetic rotating field, a stator core in which a multiplicity of slots disposed in the circumferential direction are configured, and a stator winding which occupies a plurality of winding zones in the slots. Each winding zone in a cross-sectional plane that is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis by way of a centric radial division is su...