ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,168, issued on May 27, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Electric machine having an electric sliding contact" was invented by Daniel Ihle (Sinzheim, Germany) and Matthias Baumann (Lahr, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Electric machine (10), in particular for adjusting movable parts in a motor vehicle, having a stator housing (22) which accommodates a stator (12) and a rotor (14), wherein the rotor (14) has a rotor shaft (16), and the stator housing (22) has an axial opening (24) through which the rotor shaft (16) projects out of the stator housing (22), wherein an electrically conductive shielding plate ...