ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,980, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Jacobi Motors LLC (Missouri City, Texas).

"Integrated variable flux memory motor charger" was invented by Ahmed Morsy (Sugar Land, Texas) and Brian Wightman (Eugene, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated synchronous motor charger includes a battery, and a synchronous motor having a set of phase windings, with each phase winding thereof having an open-ended winding configuration, the synchronous motor being electrically connected to the battery via a bidirectional inverter on a first end of at least one phase winding from the set of phase windings, and to a power source on a second e...