US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on June 16 for "Method and system for sensing component position in an electric drive unit" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,658,767, issued on June 16, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Method and system for sensing component position in an electric drive unit" was invented by Suresh Gopalakrishnan (Troy, Mich.), Craig S. Ross (Ypsilanti, Mich.), Chandra S. Namuduri (Troy, Mich.), Chunhao J. Lee (Troy, Mich.), Thomas W. Nehl (Shelby Township, Mich.) and Yulei Chen (Northville, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric drive unit includes a housing and a rotor rotatably supported in the housing. The rotor includes a rotor shaft defining a rotor axis and a plurality of rotor laminations fixedly mounted to the shaft. The plur...