ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,086, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to POWER INTEGRATIONS INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Active discharge of an electric drive system" was invented by Andreas Volke (Soest, Germany) and Christoph Dustert (Soest, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric drive system for a vehicle includes an inverter having at least one phase leg, wherein a first of the phase legs includes a first power switch; an internal voltage supply configured to generate an internal supply voltage regulated with respect to a voltage on a rail and a second voltage, wherein the internal voltage supply is configured to reduce a voltage difference between the ...