US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on April 15 for "Stator assembly of an electric motor with retrofitted heat pipes" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,550, issued on April 15, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Stator assembly of an electric motor with retrofitted heat pipes" was invented by Alireza Fatemi (Canton, Mich.), Chih-Hung Yen (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.), Farzad Samie (Franklin, Mich.), SeungHwan Keum (Northville, Mich.), Thomas W. Nehl (Shelby Township, Mich.) and Xiaofeng Yang (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor stator includes a stator core having a plurality of stator teeth on an inner diameter thereof and defining a respective plurality of slots between the plurality of stator teeth. A plurality of windings are disposed in th...