ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,997, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Method and device for operating an inverter" was invented by Jochen Kuehner (Backnang, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method (400) for operating an inverter (110), comprising the steps of: -controlling (450) the inverter (110) for transferring the inverter (110), the intermediate circuit capacitor (140) and the electric machine (190) into a safe state, in particular into a free-wheeling mode (FW). The method is characterized by the following steps: determining (460) a cut-off vector; controlling (470) the inverter (11...