US Patent Issued to Deere & Co. on Sept. 9 for "Method and system for controlling braking of an electric motor" (North Dakota, Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,165, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Deere & Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Method and system for controlling braking of an electric motor" was invented by Scott C. Johnson (Fargo, N.D.), Andrew W. Kelly (Holy Cross, Iowa) and Derek Lehmann (Kindred, N.D.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with one embodiment, a method of controlling a braking of a rotor of an electric motor comprises operating an electric motor in a first mode at an inefficient operating point or inefficient operating curve of a quadrature-axis current versus a direct-axis current such that the braking of the electric motor occurs at a rate based on a rate propo...