ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,097, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to KUKA Deutschland GmbH (Germany).

"Annular heat sink, electric motor, and drive arrangement with an annular heat sink" was invented by Martin Riedel (Augsburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An annular heat sink for fastening to an outer shell wall of a heat-emitting electric motor includes at least one guide wall portion which is arranged on the annular heat sink and covers portions of at least one flow duct, delimited laterally by peripheral cooling fins, from the outside, in such a way that an air flow which has entered into a flow duct in a first region of a side of the annular heat ...