ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,608, issued on July 15, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Stator core axial channels for temperature regulation of electric motor" was invented by Dang Dinh Dang (Garden Grove, Calif.), Logan Noel Balliett (Los Angeles), Shreyas Kapatral (Fullerton, Calif.), Fan Wu (Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.) and Iftekhar Hasan (Lakewood, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure relate to an electric motor that includes a stator and a rotor. The stator includes a stator body having a plurality of stator coil slots and a plurality of stator coils disposed respectively within the plurality of sta...