ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,624, issued on July 15, was assigned to DR. ING. H.C. F. PORSCHE AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Electric machine with sleeve-like wall sealing arrangement, and electric vehicle" was invented by Philipp Berendes (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric machine, including a housing, a rotor which includes a rotor shaft and a rotor laminated core, a directly cooled stator which includes a stator laminated core, an annular gap configured between the rotor laminated core and the stator laminated core, and a sleeve-like wall element disposed in the annular gap, wherein the wall element abuts the stator with its outer surfa...