US Patent Issued to Falcon Power on May 27 for "Variable torque generation electric machine employing tunable halbach magnet array" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,170, issued on May 27, was assigned to Falcon Power LLC (Titusville, Fla.).

"Variable torque generation electric machine employing tunable halbach magnet array" was invented by Harley C. McDonald (Merritt Island, Fla.), James L. Bailey (Titusville, Fla.) and Matthew C. McDonald (Merritt Island, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric machine with variable torque generation having a tunable Halbach array configuration. The electric machine includes a magnet assembly for generating a magnetic field. The magnet assembly includes a plurality of fixed magnets disposed in a ring arrangement so that fixed magnets having a north pole...