ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,974, issued on July 29, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Electric axial flow machine and displacement device for an electric axial flow machine" was invented by Christoph Raber (Ottweiler-Steinbach, Germany) and Holger Witt (Buhl, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric axial flow machine having a stator, a first rotor body arranged on a rotor shaft, a second rotor body arranged on the rotor shaft, and a displacement device arranged between the two rotor bodies and coupled thereto. The displacement device includes at least one spring device which acts on the first rotor body a...