ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,975, issued on July 29, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).
"Electric machine" was invented by Darek Tomasz Zatorski (Fort Wright, Ky.), Mohamed Osama (Garching, Germany) and Christopher Charles Glynn (Clearwater Beach, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric machine is provided. The electric machine defines a centerline and includes: a stator assembly; a rotor assembly rotatable relative to the stator assembly about the centerline; and an actuator coupled to the rotor assembly, the stator assembly, or both for moving the rotor assembly, the stator assembly, or both along the centerline between a first posi...