US Patent Issued to Cummins on Dec. 30 for "System and method for discharging a capacitor using an auxiliary leg in an inverter" (Indiana, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,912, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Ind.).

"System and method for discharging a capacitor using an auxiliary leg in an inverter" was invented by Santhosh Krishnamoorthi (Indianapolis), Gary L. Parker (Columbus, Ind.), Bradford K. Palmer (Ham Lake, Minn.), Dakshina S. Murthy-Bellur (Plymouth, Minn.) and Minyu Cai (Maplewood, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inverter system is provided such that the system includes a direct-current (DC) voltage supply, an inverter electrically coupled with the DC voltage supply, an electric machine electrically coupled with the inverter, and a controller coupled with ...