ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,224,623, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).
"Electric motor" was invented by Stefan Lampenscherf (Poing, Germany), Gotthard Rieger (Munich) and Michael Krispin (Vaterstetten, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the teachings herein include an electric motor. In some embodiments, the motor includes: a stator; and a moving component comprising an iron-based soft-magnetic structural material including crystallites of a ferromagnetic iron-based alloy separated by grain boundaries, wherein there is interlayer-free contact between the crystallites at grain boundaries. The structural material compr...