ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,310, issued on April 15, was assigned to NISSAN MOTOR Co. LTD. (Yokohama, Japan) and AMPERE S.A.S. (Boulogne-Billancourt, France).

"Electric vehicle control method and system for switching drive control on motors" was invented by Tomoyuki Manabe (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric vehicle control method including using a first motor and a second motor as travel drive sources, performing drive control on the first motor by transmitting a first torque command value to a first inverter, and performing drive control on the second motor by transmitting a second torque command value to a second inverter, and performi...