ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,248, issued on July 22, was assigned to BorgWarner Inc. (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Control system for regulating harmonic torque disturbances in an electric vehicle" was invented by James Smith (Washington Crossing, Pa.), Hassan H. Eldeeb (Carmel, Ind.), Caleb W. Secrest (Noblesville, Ind.) and Siddharth Ballal (Fishers, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system for generating a torque command for an electric motor carried by an electric vehicle (EV) including a motion observer configured to receive an angular position of an output shaft of the electric motor and an ideal torque command output an estimated disturbance torque ...