ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,139, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Inverter system and method for operating same" was invented by Joachim Hemmer (Schesslitz, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inverter system having: a multiphase inverter, which has at least three half bridge circuits, which are parallel-connected to positive and negative connections, all the half bridge circuits each include a high-side switch, arranged between the positive connection and an output of the half bridge circuit, and a low-side switch, arranged between the negative connection and the circuit output, at least t...