ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,972, issued on July 29, was assigned to Schaeffler ELMOTEC STATOMAT GmbH (Karben, Germany).

"Method for producing a coil winding for insertion into radially open slots of stators or rotors of electrical machines" was invented by Keith A. Witwer (Fort Wayne, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for producing a coil winding (70) for insertion into radially open slots (82) in a rotor or stator (80) of an electrical machine, wherein the coil winding (70) has a wire pack (60) consisting of a number of wires (32), wherein the wires (32) of the wire pack (60) run parallel to one another and are connected to ...