ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,289, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Inverter driving device and method of controlling same" was invented by Hyun Jae Lim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Joo Young Park (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Young Kwan Ko (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inverter driving device includes an inverter including a plurality of legs corresponding to a plurality of phases, and a controller that generates a plurality of pole voltage commands from a plurality of space vector modulation signals corresponding to the plurality of phases and modulates the p...