ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,520, issued on March 18, was assigned to PUNCH POWERTRAIN E-VEHICLES NV (Sint-Truiden, Belgium).

"Motor and method for cooling a motor" was invented by Markus Walbaum (Sint-Truiden, Belgium), Rine Pelders (Sint-Truiden, Belgium), Maximilian Hombsch (Sint-Truiden, Belgium), Jan Willem Van Der Vecht (Sint-Truiden, Belgium) and Alberto Arcos (Sint-Truiden, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure describes a motor comprising a rotor shaft comprising a cooling channel having at least one inlet for receiving cooling fluid, and at least one outlet section fluidly connected to the cooling channel at an outer side of the rotor ...