ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,018, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to NOVARES FRANCE (Clamart, France).

"Rotor for electric motor equipped with an electronic circuit" was invented by Cedric Ledieu (Mont Saint Eloi, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotor for an electric motor including: a rotor shaft rotatably mounted about an axis; a lamination stack mounted coaxially on the rotor shaft, the lamination stack including a plurality of inner cavities; a plurality of permanent magnets housed inside the inner cavities of the lamination stack; at least one flange mounted axially on the rotor shaft, at least one sensor fixed or integrated into the at least one fl...