ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,060, issued on May 13, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).
"Rotors for electric motors" was invented by Jian Yao (Shanghai), Vincent Fedida (Shanghai), Alan G. Holmes (Clarkston, Mich.), Chengwu Duan (Shanghai) and Yusheng Zou (Northville, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example rotor includes a rotor yoke having an outer circumference and an inner circumference. The rotor further includes a plurality of rotor ribs on a surface the rotor yoke and extending between the outer circumference and the inner circumference. The rotor further includes a plurality of magnets, each of the plurality of magnets ...