ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,311, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SCHWABISCHE HUTTENWERKE AUTOMOTIVE GMBH (Aalen, Germany).
"Pump-motor unit comprising a centred stator" was invented by Holger Braasch (Pfullendorf, Germany) and Thomas Finsterle (Ravensburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pump-motor unit includes: a housing structure; an impeller for delivering a fluid; an electric drive motor accommodated in the motor space and including a rotor coupled to the impeller in order to rotationally drive it and a stator with a stator centring structure. The housing structure includes a pump space portion, a motor space portion, a housing centring portion...