ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,338, issued on March 4, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Power supply system including an electrical machine with its neutral point connected to a power supply unit" was invented by Masaki Uchiyama (Kariya, Japan), Daisuke Kuroda (Kariya, Japan), Atsushi Fukaya (Kariya, Japan) and Keiya Tani (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure includes an inverter connected to a power supply unit via a positive electrode side electrical path and a negative electrode side electrical path and including switching elements, a rotary electric machine including windings connected to each other at a neutral poin...