US Patent Issued to Franklin Electric on June 23 for "System and method for modified active zero space vector pulse width modulation" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,535, issued on June 23, was assigned to Franklin Electric Co. Inc. (Fort Wayne, Ind.).

"System and method for modified active zero space vector pulse width modulation" was invented by Amjad Masood (Fort Wayne, Ind.), Benjamin Hunley (Fort Wayne, Ind.) and Bart Long (Fort Wayne, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for reducing common mode voltages in a system that includes an inverter connected to a motor by a long cable by controlling switches of the inverter to generate voltage vectors that emulate a three-phase sinusoidal waveform by switching between adjacent active vectors and active vectors that are separate...