ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,310, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, Md.) and University of Wisconsin-Madison (Madison, Wis.).

"Thermal management system and method for in-slot cooling of electric motors" was invented by Raphael Kahat Mandel (West Hartford, Conn.), F. Patrick Mccluskey (Ellicott City, Md.), Zhaoxi Yao (College Park, Md.), Thomas Jahns (Madison, Wis.), Bulent Sarlioglu (Madison, Wis.), James Swanke (Edina, Minn.) and Dheeraj Bobba (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The thermal management system for in-slot cooling of electric motors includes separating structures, either in the form o...