US Patent Issued to Tesla on Aug. 26 for "Electric drive unit cooling systems with annular oil distribution assembly and methods" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,797, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Tesla Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Electric drive unit cooling systems with annular oil distribution assembly and methods" was invented by Scott Michael Graves (Felton, Calif.), Eric Bellemare (Mountain View, Calif.) and Alexander Hain (Frankfurt Hochst, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for cooling power transmission systems are include providing oil through an aperture defined in a housing to a stator cooling ring, through the stator cooling ring and into stator cooling channels, through the stator cooling channels and into spaces defined between the housing and jet rings, ...