US Patent Issued to ATS on Oct. 14 for "System and method for electric motor control in a manufacturing environment" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,552, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to ATS Corp. (Cambridge, Canada).

"System and method for electric motor control in a manufacturing environment" was invented by John Leo Ditner (Cambridge, Canada) and Albert Kleinikkink (Cambridge, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system for an electric motor in a manufacturing environment, the control system including: a safety relay; and a power reduction circuit, wherein, when the safety relay is triggered, the power reduction circuit automatically limits the power supplied to the electric motor from a main power source such that the electric motor operates in a predetermined sa...