ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,169, issued on July 1, was assigned to AVL Software and Functions GmbH (Regensburg, Germany).

"Method for controlling electric machines" was invented by Mathias Deiml (Regensburg, Germany), Klaus Beer (Regensburg, Germany), Matthias Schneck (Regensburg, Germany) and Ankit Verma (Regensburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first electric machine is controlled by a first pulse-width modulated control signal output by a first inverter and having a first signal parameter, and a second electric machine is controlled by means of a second pulse-width modulated control signal output by a second inverter and having a second signal par...