ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,728, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to GKN Automotive Ltd. (Birmingham, Great Britain).

"Electric motor cooling arrangement" was invented by John Foulsham (Hampshire, Great Britain), Daniel Beeby (Oxfordshire, Great Britain) and Andre Santos (Maia, Portugal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric motor comprises: a motor housing, a stator connected to the motor housing, wherein the stator comprises first stator end-windings and second stator end-windings, a rotor rotatable relative to the stator, a driveshaft connected to the rotor in a rotationally fixed manner, wherein the driveshaft is rotatably supported in the motor housing ...