ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,121, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Ind.).
"Flexible control for a six-phase machine" was invented by Akm Arafat (Blaine, Minn.), Bradford K. Palmer (Ham Lake, Minn.) and Dakshina S. Murthy-Bellur (Plymouth, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling a multi-phase electric machine includes implementing a first control method to control the operation of a six-phase machine that is configured as a combination of two three-phase machines. The method also includes determining whether a fault exists in the six-phase machine. In response to determining that the fault exists in the six-phase mac...