ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,773, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to System73 Ltd (Floriana, Malta).

"Multi-motor control system and method for increased efficiency and energy savings" was invented by William Erbey (Christiansted, Virgin Islands), Doron Paz (Alameda, Calif.), Duo Zhang (Lakewood, Ohio) and Mattias Bergstrom (Tenerife, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-motor switching system and method for obtaining a global optimization of performance criteria that takes into account variables and conditions across an entire driving cycle. The controller of the system is adapted to conduct a global optimization in that it determines the most optimal dis...