ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,507, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Thermal sensing and control of a transistor board" was invented by Muhammad Hussain Alvi (Troy, Mich.), Cherian A. Idicheria (Novi, Mich.) and Brian A. Welchko (Oakland Township, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric motor circuit includes a motor controller having a plurality of gate drivers and an inverter configured to receive direct current (DC) power from a source and output alternating current (AC) power to an electric motor. The inverter includes a plurality of transistor elements. Each transistor element includes multiple transist...