ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,316, issued on May 20, was assigned to Mercedes-Benz Group AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for operating an electric drive system for a vehicle" was invented by Moritz Haussmann (Nuertingen, Germany), Joerg Weigold (Stuttgart, Germany) and Maximilian Hepp (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating an electric drive system of a vehicle where the electric drive system has an electric three-phase motor, a battery, and an inverter via which the electric three-phase motor is couplable electrically to the battery. A neutral point of the electric three-phase motor is couplable electrically to a positive pole ...