ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,482, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & Co. KG (Bruchsal, Germany).

"Method for operating a drive system and drive system for carrying out the method" was invented by Thomas Schuster (Ottenbach, Germany) and Manuel Fuchs (Kronau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for operating a drive system having a plurality of inverters, a respective electric motor is fed from the AC-side terminal of the respective inverter, the DC-side terminals of the respective inverters are connected in parallel with one another and this parallel connection is connected to the DC-side terminal of a rectifier, each inverter h...