US Patent Issued to GM Global Technology Operations on Nov. 25 for "Electric machine with reconfigurable rotor poles" (Michigan, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,099, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Electric machine with reconfigurable rotor poles" was invented by Yilun Luo (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Khorshed Mohammed Alam (Canton, Mich.), Muhammad A. Zahid (Troy, Mich.), Mazharul Chowdhury (Canton, Mich.), Peng Peng (Columbus, Ohio), Thomas W. Nehl (Shelby Township, Mich.) and Junghoon Kim (Springboro, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric machine with reconfigurable rotor poles. The machine may include a stator including a plurality of stator windings configured for generating a rotating magnetic field (RMF) and a rotor configured for ro...