US Patent Issued to SEG Automotive Germany on Nov. 4 for "Method and processing unit for checking an overvoltage protection circuit for an electric machine, and converter arrangement" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,419, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SEG Automotive Germany GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method and processing unit for checking an overvoltage protection circuit for an electric machine, and converter arrangement" was invented by Kaveh Haghverdi (Stuttgart, Germany), Murugaperumal Devaraja (Stuttgart, Germany), Nima Saadat (Stuttgart, Germany), Vivek Tailor (Stuttgart, Germany) and Timm Lohmann (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An overvoltage protection circuit for an electric machine has a series connection of at least two overvoltage protection units, each having a switching unit connected in parallel. Each overvo...