ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,718, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to BORGWARNER US TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Systems and methods for gate leakage detection for inverter for electric vehicle" was invented by Mark Wendell Gose (Kokomo, Ind.), Seyed R. Zarabadi (Kokomo, Ind.) and Narendra Mane (Kokomo, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes an inverter configured to convert DC power from a battery to AC power to drive a motor, wherein the inverter includes: one or more controllers configured to provide a test signal to control a gate leakage detection operation, and a power module including: a phase switch including one or more phase powe...