ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,841, issued on March 11, was assigned to General Electric Co. (Evendale, Ohio).

"Electric power system for a vehicle" was invented by Rajib Datta (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Vishnu Mahadeva Iyer (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Mohamed Osama (Garching, Germany), Kum Kang Huh (Niskayuna, N.Y.) and Vandana Prabhakar Rallabandi (Niskayuna, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric power system for a vehicle includes at least one electric machine, one or more power rectifiers, and a plurality of DC channels. The at least one electric machine includes a plurality of tooth-wound multi-phase windings that are substantially magnetically decoupled, and the a...