US Patent Issued to SUBARU on July 28 for "Inverter device for electric vehicle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,762, issued on July 28, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Inverter device for electric vehicle" was invented by Nobuaki Kobayashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inverter device for an electric vehicle is configured to be mounted in the electric vehicle including an electric motor configured to generate power for traveling and drive the electric motor. The inverter device includes a multilevel inverter circuit including switching elements, a controller configured to control the switching elements, and temperature sensors configured to respectively detect temperatures of the switching elements. The multilevel inverter ci...