ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,052, issued on June 3, was assigned to POWER INTEGRATIONS INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Active discharge of an electric drive system" was invented by Andreas Volke (Soest, Germany), Vinzenz Maurer (Olten, Switzerland), Salem Abid (Ipsach, Switzerland), Douglas Arnold Erik Andersson Hagglund (Biel, Switzerland), Michael Hornkamp (Ense, Germany) and Matthias Peter (Orpund Bern, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods for active discharge of 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, a dc/dc conver...