ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,133, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Method for testing switch signals of an inverter of an electric machine controlled via a pulse-width modulation" was invented by Huan Fu (Rastatt, Germany), Vincent Leonhardt (Haguenau, France) and Eduard Enderle (Gengenbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for testing switch signals of an inverter of an electric machine of a drive system of a motor vehicle. The electric machine is controlled via a pulse-width modulation generated by a control unit using a target duty cycle and a triangular-waveform voltag...