ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,729, issued on June 17, was assigned to AMBER KINETICS INC. (Union City, Calif.).
"Stacked lamination endplate" was invented by Kyle B. Gaiser (Union City, Calif.), Seth R. Sanders (Berkeley, Calif.), Mark J. Holloway (Mountain View, Calif.), Keenan William Rodewald (Union City, Calif.) and Kiana Wright (Oakland, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stacked lamination endplate for a rotor that includes a number of adjacent laminations, stacked one on top of another, wherein each lamination has an identical shape, the shape having a central region, symmetric about a center axis, and a number of spokes, each spoke emanating radially...