ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,495, issued on March 25, was assigned to Mahle International GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Electrical machine, in particular for a vehicle" was invented by John Cunningham (Muxton Telford, Great Britain), Philip Grabherr (Stuttgart, Germany), Ian Webb (Telford, Great Britain), Tim Male (Telford, Great Britain), Stojan Markic (Kojsko, Slovenia), Graham Sentance (Stanford Bridge, Great Britain), Peter Sever (Murska Sobota, Slovenia), Josef Sonntag (Nuertingen, Germany) and Jon Witcombe (Telford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical machine includes a rotor, which can be rotated about an axis of rotation, with which...