ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,459, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. KG Wuerzburg (Wuerzburg, Germany).

"Stator for an electric motor, electric motor, and spring element for a stator" was invented by Kevin Koch (Furth, Germany), Michael Duncher (Wurzburg, Germany) and Daniel Hirsch (Hochberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stator for an electric motor has a stator main body with stator teeth arranged in the form of a star and a stator yoke. The stator main body is formed with a number of axial grooves on an outer circumference. Spring elements are inserted into the axial grooves and the spring elements circumferentially pro...