US Patent Issued to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on Aug. 25 for "Control of gate drive resistance based on radio frequency interference" (Michigan, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,303, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Control of gate drive resistance based on radio frequency interference" was invented by Jonathan Hair (Royal Oak, Mich.), Jukkrit Noppakunkajorn (Novi, Mich.), Amir Shahidi (Seattle) and Brendan F. Diamond (Grosse Pointe, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automotive vehicle includes an electric machine, a power converter that powers the electric machine and includes a switch having an adjustable gate drive resistance, a source of audio, and a controller that varies the gate drive resistance according to a received signal strength associated...