ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,095, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to FCA US LLC (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Electric machine stator with damping material channels" was invented by Reemon Zaki Saleem Haddad (Rochester Hills, Mich.) and Dhafar Al-Ani (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stator assembly for an electric machine includes a plurality of stator laminations arranged in a stacked configuration and a plurality of apertures formed in each of the stator laminations. The plurality of apertures of the plurality of stator laminations are aligned to form a plurality of channels in the stacked configuration. A damping material is disposed in at least one ch...