ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,777, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Electric drive system, powertrain, heating method, and electric vehicle" was invented by Haojie Li (Xi'an, China), Chaoqiang Wu (Shenzhen, China) and Mengxuan Lin (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric drive system and a heating method. The electric drive system includes an inverter circuit, a direct current-direct current conversion circuit, and a controller. An input end of the inverter circuit is connected to an input end of the electric drive system, and an output end of the inverter circuit is connected to th...