ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,309, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to SEG Automotive Germany GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Electric machine unit, vehicle and method of operating an electric machine unit" was invented by Nima Saadat (Stuttgart, Germany), Enrico Carraro (Stuttgart, Germany) and Timm Lohmann (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric machine unit has an electric machine with two phase groups of at least one phase each and having a power converter, the power converter having two half-bridge groups of at least one half-bridge in each case, each phase group being assigned one half-bridge group, so that one half-bridge is provided per ...