ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,199, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Valeo Siemens eAutomotive Germany GmbH (Erlangen, Germany).

"Stator with pins for an electric machine" was invented by Stephane De-Clercq (Rang du Fliers, France), Wojciech Mandok (Czechowice-Dziedzice, Poland), Christian Finger-Albert (Bad Kissingen, Germany) and Boris Dotz (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stator for an electric machine having a plurality of pins, which are arranged on concentric circles at different distances from a stator center point in slots in the stator, and each concentric circle forms a layer, where four pins in different layers are connected to one another in ...