US Patent Issued to AUDI, VOLKSWAGEN on Oct. 21 for "Method for operating an inverter device of an electric drive device, control unit, electric drive device and motor vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,832, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany) and VOLKSWAGEN AG (Wolfsburg, Germany).

"Method for operating an inverter device of an electric drive device, control unit, electric drive device and motor vehicle" was invented by Tobias Grassl (Denkendorf, Germany), Marko Kertes (Munich) and Mathias Korn (Regensburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inverter device of an electric drive device may be configured to convert a direct voltage of an intermediate circuit of the electric drive device into a multi-phase alternating current to operate an electric motor of the electric drive device. A safety signal...