ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,097, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to JAGUAR LAND ROVER Ltd. (Coventry, Great Britain).

"Apparatus for an electric machine" was invented by Alexandros Michaelides (Coventry, Great Britain), Cleef Thackwell (Coventry, Great Britain), Matthew Crouch (Coventry, Great Britain) and Jose Malumbres Ruiz (Coventry, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotor assembly for an electric machine has a rotor and magnets configured to form rotor poles that each have a central pole axis extending in a radial direction from a longitudinal axis. The rotor poles each have a first magnet layer having one or more first magnet including a centr...