ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,484, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Hamilton Sundstrand Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).
"Controller for a permanent magnet machine" was invented by Andrew McLean (Halesowen, Great Britain) and Parminder Sangha (Solihull, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller for a permanent magnet machine, the controller configured to: monitor a characteristic value of power transfer to the permanent magnet machine; compare the monitored characteristic value to a characteristic threshold; and indicate a short circuit error in response to the monitored characteristic value meeting the characteristic threshold."
The patent was filed...