ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,217, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wis.).

"System and method for electric machine cooling" was invented by Bulent Sarlioglu (Madison, Wis.) and Gokhan Cakal (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Stator packages and electric machines, and methods for cooling same, are disclosed herein. In an example embodiment, an electric machine includes a rotor, and a stator package having one or more stator coils, stator core portions, and a heat exchanger. The stator core portions and heat exchanger are arranged successively along a central axis, with the heat exchanger being positioned ...