ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,493, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to E-Circuit Motors Inc. (Needham Heights, Mass.).
"Magnetic material filled printed circuit boards and printed circuit board stators" was invented by George Harder Milheim (Bozeman, Mont.), Steven Robert Shaw (Bozeman, Mont.), Ryan Terrence Duffy (Lowell, Mass.) and Edward Charles Carignan (Goffstown, N.H.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dielectric substrate may support conductive traces that form windings for a least one pole of a planar armature of an axial flux machine. At least a portion of the dielectric substrate, which is adapted to be positioned within an annular active area of the axial f...