ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,335, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to MAGNAX (Kortrijk, Belgium).

"Axial flux motor with field weakening functionality" was invented by Peter Leijnen (Bachte-Maria-Leerne, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An axial flux machine includes a rotor having: a first and a second rotor disk; a shifting element; a first and a second pair of mechanical mating elements, enabling an axial displacement of the first respectively second rotor disk relative to the shifting element by rotating the first respectively second rotor disk. An equal rotation of the first and the second rotor disk results in an equally-sized but opposite axial displ...