US Patent Issued to Cummins on July 15 for "Systems and methods for control of multi-phase machines" (Minnesota, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,688, issued on July 15, was assigned to Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Ind.).

"Systems and methods for control of multi-phase machines" was invented by Akm Arafat (Blaine, Minn.), Dakshina Murthy-Bellur (Plymouth, Minn.), Santhosh Krishnamoorthi (Indianapolis) and Shankari Bangalore Kalyanam Ramnath (Columbus, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for controlling a six-phase machine include generating a plurality of control vectors for the six-phase machine. The six-phase machine is configured as a combination of a first three-phase machine and a second three-phase machine. Each of the plurality of control vectors is gener...