ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,818, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"Inverter" was invented by Ken Toshiyuki (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an inverter according to the present disclosure, in an emergency operation, a control circuit changes the electric potential of a restricted output wiring between two of a higher potential, a neutral-point potential and a lower potential excluding a forbidden potential, and changes each of the electric potentials of normal output wirings between the higher potential, the neutral-point potential and the lower potential. Moreover, in a restricted state where a command value vecto...