ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,012, issued on June 3, was assigned to ROLLS-ROYCE PLC (London).
"Electric machine" was invented by Seamus D Garvey (Nottingham, Great Britain) and Karuna Kalita (Nottingham, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric machine includes a stator having a phase arrangement, and a rotor. The phase arrangement includes first and second legs connected in parallel at first and second primary junctions. The legs each include first and second coils connected in series through a first intermediate junction. The intermediate junctions are connected by a branch such that the phase arrangement is a bridge circuit. The phase arrangeme...