US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Feb. 11 for "Method and system for controlling electric drive system according to predicted temperature of DC-link capacitor to prevent overheating" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,222,738, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Method and system for controlling electric drive system according to predicted temperature of DC-link capacitor to prevent overheating" was invented by Monty J. Anderson (Boise, Idaho), William Robert Brown (Huntington Woods, Mich.), Jogendra Singh Thongam (Windsor, Canada), Joseph Sherman Kimmel (Carleton, Mich.) and Papiya Bagchi (Northville, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric drive system includes a power electronics module (PEM) having a DC-link capacitor and an inverter. A controller reduces power output of the inverter while a...