ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,435, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to GOODRICH Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"State vector pulse width modulation systems and methods" was invented by Shoukath Ali Mohammad (Bangalore, India), Vipul Kohli (Bangalore, India) and Ashish Vijay (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatus, and methods for computing a duty cycle for generating pulse width modulated signals to control switches of an inverter. A measured DC bus voltage is used to perform a search using a lookup table to generate an output value corresponding to the measured DC bus voltage. The output value is hard coded and is proportional to a value appro...