ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,452, issued on June 24, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Control apparatus for rotating electric machine" was invented by Miho Yamaguchi (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus is applied to a system that includes a rotating electric machine and an inverter. The inverter has, for each of a plurality of phases, upper-arm and lower-arm switches each of which has a diode connected in antiparallel thereto. The control apparatus includes an all-phase short-circuiting unit and a single-phase short-circuiting unit. The all-phase short-circuiting unit performs all-phase short-circuit control of turning ...