US Patent Issued to Atieva on Feb. 24 for "Rotor angle limit for static heating of electric motor" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,970, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Atieva Inc. (Newark, Calif.).

"Rotor angle limit for static heating of electric motor" was invented by Yateendra Deshpande (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Sameer Sudhir Deshmukh (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining rotor angle limits for static heating of an electric motor comprises: applying a brake to a wheel of a vehicle, wherein the vehicle has an electric motor; while the brake is applied, providing a first current to the electric motor to generate first torque not exceeding a brake torque limit of the brake; while the brake is applied, providing a second curren...