US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Sept. 30 for "Methods and system for controlling loss mode for an electric machine" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,868, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Methods and system for controlling loss mode for an electric machine" was invented by Seth Loveall (Dearborn, Mich.), Shunsuke Okubo (Belleville, Mich.), Brendan Diamond (Grosse Pointe, Mich.) and Jonathan Hair (Royal Oak, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for operating an electric drive system for an electric or hybrid vehicle is described. In one example, the drive system is operated to provide extra losses during select vehicle operating conditions so that greater amounts of regenerative braking may be generated withou...