US Patent Issued to Volvo Car on Dec. 30 for "Drive assembly for an electric vehicle and method for operating a drive assembly" (Swedish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,924, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Volvo Car Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Drive assembly for an electric vehicle and method for operating a drive assembly" was invented by Jonas Bjorkholtz (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a drive assembly for an electric vehicle and to operation of a drive assembly. The drive assembly can comprise an electric drive machine with three phase strands. The drive assembly can comprise a switching means being configured for selectively switching the three phase strands in a delta configuration or in a star configuration. The drive assembly can also comprise ...