US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on July 1 for "Power transfer for electric motors with segmented windings" (Ohio, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,162, issued on July 1, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Power transfer for electric motors with segmented windings" was invented by Peng Peng (Columbus, Ohio), Lei Hao (Troy, Mich.) and Suresh Gopalakrishnan (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Power transfer in an electric motors including segmented windings utilize control commands. A control system determines a d-axis command voltage for a secondary winding of an electric motor and a q-axis command voltage for the secondary winding based on a primary winding voltage, primary winding current, secondary winding current, and rotor electrical posit...