ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,164, issued on May 27, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Electric machine having shoulders between a plurality of conductors and tabs of a winding receptacle region of a stator or of a rotor" was invented by Michael Marsetz (Ettlingen, Germany) and Fabian Oehler (Wachenheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric machine for driving a motor vehicle, having a stator and a rotor, rotatably mounted relative to the stator. The stator or the rotor is equipped with a winding receptacle region having a plurality of radially extending longitudinal slots distributed in a circumferentia...