ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,020, issued on June 2, was assigned to BorgWarner US Technologies LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Systems and methods for sensing temperature of inverter for electric vehicle" was invented by Mark Wendell Gose (Kokomo, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprises: an inverter configured to convert DC power from a battery to AC power to drive a motor, wherein the inverter includes: a power module including a drain terminal and a source terminal; one or more phase switches configured to control a current flow between the drain terminal and the source terminal; and a point-of-use controller including two or more thermal sensors on the...