ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,613, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to BYD Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Electric motor driving apparatus, control method, vehicle, and readable storage medium" was invented by Yubo Lian (Shenzhen, China), Heping Ling (Shenzhen, China), Hua Pan (Shenzhen, China), Feiyue Xie (Shenzhen, China) and Lijun Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor drive apparatus includes a three-phase inverter and a three-phase motor. A first terminal of the three-phase inverter is connected to a positive electrode of a power battery. A second terminal of the three-phase inverter is connected to a negative electrode of the power battery...