ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,022, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to CUMMINS INC. (Columbus, Ind.).
"Bidirectional electric vehicle charging with multi-phase machines" was invented by Oliver D. Wilson (Fridley, Minn.) and Akm Arafat (Blaine, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for bidirectional charging in an electric vehicle include controlling a multi-phase machine in the electric vehicle. In response to determining that a direction of energy flow is from an electric grid to the electric vehicle, the method and system include operating a first set of phases in the multi-phase machine at a grid frequency of the electric grid and connecting th...