ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,508, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to BorgWarner Inc. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).
"Decoupled oil feed for internal rotor cooling" was invented by Michael Duane Bradfield (Anderson, Ind.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotating electric machine receiving a flow of fluid at a rotor includes a stator having stator slots and a plurality of stator windings for receiving electrical current; the rotor, concentrically received within the stator, including: at least one axially-extending fluid channel in fluid communication with an end face of the rotor and an opposite end face of the rotor, wherein the axially-extending fluid channel is config...