US Patent Issued to Karma Automotive on May 26 for "Integrated bidirectional charger and inverter for electric vehicles" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,964, issued on May 26, was assigned to Karma Automotive Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Integrated bidirectional charger and inverter for electric vehicles" was invented by Fazel Farahmand (Aliso Viejo, Calif.) and Bradley Ketchel (Huntington Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving an indication of a charging current received at an on-board charging circuit of a vehicle from a source having a charging voltage. The on-board charging circuit includes a multi-phase traction motor, an inverter electrically coupled to the multi-phase traction motor and including an upper set of switching elements and a lower set of...