ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,007, issued on June 3, was assigned to GKN Powder Metallurgy Engineering GmbH (Bonn, Germany).

"Electric motor and method for operating an electric motor" was invented by Maurice Andree (Neukirchen-Vluyn, Germany), Stefan Tiller (Sankt Augustin, Germany) and Hong Giang To (Dusseldorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric motor, comprising at least a stator, which extends between a first end face and a second end face along an axial direction and has an annular yoke on the first end face and starting from the yoke a plurality of cores, which each extend along the axial direction over a first length to the second end face ...