ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,774, issued on July 28, was assigned to Delta Electronics Inc. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Electric system of electric vehicle" was invented by Tomas Sadilek (Durham, N.C.), Ruxi Wang (Durham, N.C.), Satyaki Mukherjee (Durham, N.C.), Hui-Hsin Lin (Taipei, Taiwan), Chung-Hwa Wei (Taipei, Taiwan) and Peter Mantovanelli Barbosa (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a motor drive integrated on-board charger to reduce the quantity of components in an electric system of an electric vehicle. Reduction of components is achieved by utilizing the motor and the motor driving inverter as a part of the on-board charg...