ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,651, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).
"Precharging using a motor-inverter system" was invented by Rashmi Prasad (Troy, Mich.) and Chandra S. Namuduri (Troy, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for charging a battery includes a charge port configured to be electrically connected to an inverter and a multi-phase electric motor, the inverter and the electric motor configured to be powered by a battery, and a charging system including a charge port bus configured to electrically connect a charge port to a phase of the electric motor and to a direct current (DC)-DC converter. A phas...