ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,405, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to GE ENERGY POWER CONVERSION TECHNOLOGY Ltd. (Warwicksire, Great Britain).

"Rotor and associated rotary electric machine" was invented by Matthieu Perrot (Champigneulles, France), Christophe Galmiche (Champigneulles, France) and Philippe Reibel (Champigneulles, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The rotor for rotary electric machine has a magnetic mass clamped between two compaction elements, and tie rods passing through the magnetic mass and connecting the two compaction elements, at least a first compaction element has as many through holes as tie rods, each through hole of the first compact...