ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,448, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to NEWSOUTH INNOVATIONS PTY Ltd. (Sydney).

"Rotor topology for a permanent magnet machine" was invented by Alireza Pouraminaein (Sydney), Fazlur Rahman (Sydney) and Rukmi Dutta (Sydney).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An IPM rotor with a spoke-type magnet ring layer superposed around a V-type magnet ring layer is described. The spoke annulus is radially distal the V-type annulus. Broadly speaking, there is described a Y-type IPM rotor wherein a plurality of generally Y-shaped internal permanent magnets are disposed around a circumferential region of the rotor, each of the generally Y-shaped permanen...