ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,288, issued on May 5, was assigned to Tula eTechnology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Electric machine torque adjustment based on waveform multiples" was invented by Matthew Younkins (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Mark Wilcutts (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for electric machine torque adjustment based on waveform multiples are disclosed herein. One electric machine controller, arranged to direct pulsed operation of an electric machine, utilizes a pulse controller that calculates a first average measured torque from sensed torque values over a first time period and a second average measured torque fr...