ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,817, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Volkswagen AG (Wolfsburg, Germany).
"Method and system for controlling an electric machine" was invented by Mohamed Ayeb (Kassel, Germany), Florian Bethke (Kassel, Germany), Ludwig Brabetz (Lehre, Germany) and Thomas Waldmann (Kassel, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling an electric machine using measurement coils arranged in an air gap situated between a stator and a rotor of the electric machine, a plurality of phase windings assigned to different electrical phases being present. Magnetic linkage fluxes are measured in the air gap via the measurement coils, Magnetic l...