ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,141, issued on May 13, was assigned to ADVICS Co. LTD. (Kariya, Japan).
"Motor control device" was invented by Tomoya Takahashi (Kasugai, Japan) and Hikaru Kawamura (Nagoya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor control device includes: a rotation control unit that rotates a rotor of a brushless motor by supplying a power thereto; a rotation direction determining unit that determines a rotation direction of the rotor accompanying the power supplied to the brushless motor by the rotation control unit; and a magnetic pole distinguishing unit that distinguishes magnetic poles of the rotor based on an orientation of a current flow...