ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,500, issued on March 18, was assigned to NTN-SNR ROULEMENTS (Annecy, France).
"N-phase electric machine" was invented by Kevin Boissiere (Annecy, France) and Quentin Bellemin Noel (Paris).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An N-phase electric machine includes a movable member mounted so as to move with respect to a fixed member, a system for determining at least one item of information relating to the movement of the movable member and an electric power supply system which is managed by the item of information, the determination system comprising an encoder having a magnetic track, the fixed member having an armature equipped with at lea...