ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,490, issued on March 25, was assigned to Ford Motor Co. (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Varnish applicator for electric motor" was invented by Xiaogang Zhang (Novi, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A varnish application system includes an electric motor, a clamp, and a varnish injector. The clamp includes a beam, a first end plate fixed to the beam and engageable to a first end of the electric motor, and a second end plate releasably connected the beam and engageable to a second end of the electric motor. The varnish injector is arranged to apply varnish to the electric motor when the clamp engages the electric motor."
The patent was filed...