ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,825, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Chip-GaN Power Semiconductor Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Single-wire control device for brushless direct current motor" was invented by Sheng-Yu Peng (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Sheng-Ming Hu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A single-wire control device for brushless DC (BLDC) motor is disclosed, applicable to the usage between a controller and a pre-drive stage of the BLDC motor, including an encoding modulation unit, a transmission wire, and a demodulation decoding unit; wherein, the encoding modulation unit is connected to the controller to receive a plurality of control signals fro...