US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on June 16 for "Electric machine speed dependent variable frequency pulsed torque control for electric machine" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,675, issued on June 16, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Electric machine speed dependent variable frequency pulsed torque control for electric machine" was invented by Chris Wolf (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Michael W. Degner (Novi, Mich.) and Yue Nie (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for commanding an electric drive system for an electric or hybrid vehicle are described. In one example, the drive system is commanded by a controller that supplies a pulsed torque command that varies in frequency as a function of electric machine speed when a driver of a vehicle requests a cons...