ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,756, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Electric machine" was invented by Akash Changarankumarath Pradeepkumar (Westland, Mich.), Singar Rathnam (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Joel Hetrick (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Joshua Simon (Sylvania, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric machine includes windings, a terminal block, and terminal connectors. The windings have lead ends and neutral ends. The terminal block has a plurality of bus bars, a neutral bar, and an insulating material. Each bus bar is connected to one or more of the lead ends. The neutral bar is connected to one or more of...