ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,771, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to JAGUAR LAND ROVER Ltd. (Whitley, Great Britain).

"Apparatus and method for controlling an electric machine" was invented by Matthew Hancock (Rugby, Great Britain), Gareth Jones (Warwick, Great Britain), Christina O'Sullivan (Coventry, Great Britain) and Ratheev Kumari Nair (Coventry, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention provide a control system (200) for an electric machine (120) of a vehicle, the control system comprising one or more controllers, the control system comprising input means (230) to receive a torque communication signal (255) indicat...