ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,857, issued on April 7, was assigned to VOLVO CAR Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"System solution for two-phase electric machine used for vehicle propulsion" was invented by Torbjorn Larsson (Gothenburg, Sweden), Jonas Forssell (Torslanda, Sweden) and Joachim John David Harsjo (Kungalv, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Vehicle propulsion using a two-phase electric machine (e.g., using a computerized tool) is enabled. For example, a two-phase electric drivetrain can comprise a plurality of cell-level control units. Each cell-level control unit of the plurality of cell-level control units can respectively comprise one or more battery...