US Patent Issued to Transportation IP Holdings, Komatsu America, Cummins on Oct. 14 for "Electric drive system for a vehicle" (Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,339, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Transportation IP Holdings LLC, Komatsu America Corp. and Cummins Inc..

"Electric drive system for a vehicle" was invented by Henry Todd Young (Erie, Pa.), Rekha Doddarangaiah Prasad (Warrendale, Pa.), David John Scott (Washington, Ill.), Timothy Robert Heller (Germantown Hills, Ill.) and Venkat Jayaraman (Columbus, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric drive system for a vehicle and a method includes determining a headroom target for a drive system of a vehicle that includes an engine. The method includes determining whether a current speed of the engine can be decreased while the en...