US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Oct. 28 for "Back electromotive force management for electric vehicles" (Georgia, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,200, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Back electromotive force management for electric vehicles" was invented by Christopher Lyman Jones (Atlanta), Todd M. York (Highland, Mich.) and Anthony H. Heap (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric vehicle battery control system including a first electric motor configured to propel a vehicle in a drive mode in response to a drive current, a second electric motor operative to generate a back electromotive force voltage in a fault mode, a battery, having an open circuit battery discharge voltage, for generating the drive curr...