ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,774, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO LTD. (Hitachinaka, Japan).

"Motor control device, electromechanical integrated unit, boost converter system, electric vehicle system, and motor control method" was invented by Takafumi Hara (Tokyo), Toshiyuki Ajima (Tokyo), Kyoshiro Itakura (Tokyo), Takeshi Tokuyama (Tokyo), Takahiro Araki (Tokyo) and Shigehisa Aoyagi (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor control device connected to a power converter that performs power conversion from DC power to AC power and controls driving of an AC motor that is driven by using the AC power includes a voltage command genera...