ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,778, issued on June 17, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Rotor for a permanently energized electrical machine, with a support structure" was invented by Norman Borchardt (Oberschleissheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotor for a permanently energized electrical machine includes at least two rotor poles arranged next to one another in the circumferential direction; a rotor iron core; and a permanent magnet assembly embedded in the rotor iron core for generating a magnetic air-gap flux density, the assembly having at least one permanent magnet per rotor pole and the permanent magnet being divided into...