ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,646, issued on April 21, was assigned to Tula eTechnology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Boosted converter for pulsed electric machine control" was invented by Babak Mazda (Los Altos, Calif.), Adya S. Tripathi (San Jose, Calif.) and Paul Carvell (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A boost circuit is arranged to reduce rise and fall times of pulsed power used for pulsed control operation of electric machines. Magnetic energy present in the electric machine at the end of a pulse is extracted by the boost circuit to reduce the pulse fall time. The energy is stored by the boost circuit and then applied at the beginning of a subs...