ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,725, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Barrett Technology LLC (Newton, Mass.).

"High performance current sensing architecture for brushless motors" was invented by Claude F. Valle IV (Burlington, Mass.), Amy A. Blank (Brighton, Mass.), Brian Zenowich (Wayland, Mass.), Thomas Nadovich (Newton, Mass.), Donald E. Drumm (Billerica, Mass.), Christopher Woodall (Somerville, Mass.) and William T. Townsend (Weston, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor controller for controlling the operation of a three-phase permanent magnet synchronous electric motor, wherein the three-phase permanent magnet synchronous electric motor is characterize...