US Patent Issued to Cummins on Sept. 23 for "Position sensing and control in a hybrid system" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,952, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Ind.).

"Position sensing and control in a hybrid system" was invented by Jaroslaw Leonarski (Columbus, Ind.), Wei Juin Choy (Columbus, Ind.), Shyam Sunder Padhy (Columbus, Ind.) and Zachary Ryan Gheaja (Columbus, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments include a method for operating a hybrid machine system including an electric machine coupled to an engine and an inverter in an offset determination mode, and in an operating mode when the electric machine is in a loaded electrical state. Operating the machine system in the offset determination mode may include (...