ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,945, issued on July 29, was assigned to Valeo eAutomotive Germany GmbH (Erlangen, Germany).

"Rotor for an electric machine having a radial cooling duct in the laminated core" was invented by Carsten Siepker (Bad Neustadt a.d.Saale, Germany), Christoph Wieczorek (Bad Neustadt a.d.Saale, Germany), Regina Bach (Bad Neustadt a.d.Saale, Germany), Nico Wolf (Bad Neustadt a.d.Saale, Germany) and Alexander Schlereth (Bad Neustadt a.d.Saale, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotor for an electric machine is disclosed. The rotor has a rotor shaft, a laminated core arranged on the rotor shaft and a plurality of stacked electrical laminat...