US Patent Issued to Tesla on Nov. 4 for "Electric pump system and method with hollow shaft and temperature sensor" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,635, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Tesla Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Electric pump system and method with hollow shaft and temperature sensor" was invented by Scott Michael Graves (Felton, Calif.), Eric Bellemare (Mountain View, Calif.), Yufei Zhu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Benjamin Dellal (San Francisco) and Diego Alberto Silva Rodriguez (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric pump system and method of operating the same involves pumping a fluid through a fluid passageway defined in a mechanical pump from a pump inlet to a hollow shaft of a motor, through the hollow shaft to an internal motor cavity defined by a housin...