US Patent Issued to C-MOTIVE TECHNOLOGIES on Jan. 28 for "Electrostatic motor" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,252, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to C-MOTIVE TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Middleton, Wis.).

"Electrostatic motor" was invented by Justin Kyle Reed (Madison, Wis.), Graham T. Reitz (Madison, Wis.), Baoyun Ge (Madison, Wis.), Daniel Colin Ludois (Middleton, Wis.), Aditya Nandakumar Ghule (Madison, Wis.) and Serge Kuro (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example system including an electrostatic machine including a rotor plate comprising a plurality of rotor electrodes, and rotatably fixed to a shaft configured to rotate about an axis; a stator plate comprising a plurality of stator electrodes, and rotatably fixed to a housing de...