ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,237,103, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Electrical steel lamination stacks with magnetic insulator coating for electrical apparatus cores" was invented by Leyi Zhu (Novi, Mich.), Franco Leonardi (Dearborn Heights, Mich.) and Michael W. Degner (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A core for an electrical apparatus includes a plurality of electrical steel sheets having a ferromagnetic or ferrimagnetic coating applied to both sides of the electrical steel sheets. The electrical steel sheets are arranged in a stack to form a laminated stack. The ferromagnetic or ferrimagnetic coatin...