ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,088, issued on June 10, was assigned to Tula eTechnology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Pulsed control of multiple electric machines" was invented by Zakirul Islam (San Jose, Calif.) and Vijay Srinivasan (Farmington Hills, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A variety of methods, controllers, and electric machine systems are described that facilitate pulsed control of multiple electric machines (e.g., electric motors and generators) to improve the machine's energy conversion efficiency. Under selected operating conditions, the electric machine is intermittently driven (pulsed). The pulsed operation causes the output of the electric machi...