ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,158, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to ARTERY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Motor system of accurate back-electromotive force detection and operation method thereof" was invented by Ming-Tsan Lin (Keelung, Taiwan), Zi-Xuan Huang (Nantou County, Taiwan) and Yi-Shiang Ouyang (Miaoli County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor system includes a brushless direct current motor, voltage divider circuits, a switch and an analog-to-digital converter. The brushless direct current motor includes 3 sets of windings, one set of windings being floating during each commutation. There are 3 voltage divider circuits, and each vol...