ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,477, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Electric machine arrangement" was invented by Dirk Reimnitz (Buhl, Germany) and Ivo Agner (Buhl, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to an electric machine arrangement comprising an electric axial flux machine having a stator and a rotor, further comprising a component supporting the stator, and comprising an output element that is in contact with the rotor for conjoint rotation therewith. The rotor is rotatably mounted in the electric machine arrangement via at least one bearing point. According to the di...