ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,572, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Eaton Intelligent Power Ltd. (Dublin).

"Motor bus switching" was invented by Girish Potdar (Pune, India) and Darshan Harish Bhatt (Amravati, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor system includes a motor, first and second power rails connected to a DC voltage input terminal, and a DC bus capacitor connected between the first and second power rails. An inverter circuit has a first inverter leg, a second inverter leg and a third inverter leg, each of which includes first and second power switches connected in series between the first and second power rails. The inverter circuit is configured ...