ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,106, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for operating an electric drive apparatus, device for operating an electric machine, and electric drive apparatus" was invented by Yashomani Yashodhan Kolhatkar (Bangalore, India) and Peter Sinn (Untergruppenbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating an electric drive apparatus (1), wherein: the drive apparatus (1) comprises a electric machine (2) and power electronics (7) comprising a DC link capacitor (8) and a half bridge (10), which has a first semiconductor switch (13B) and a second semiconductor switch (12B); the fir...