ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,080, issued on May 13, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Motor system" was invented by Makoto Taniguchi (Kariya, Japan), Yuuko Ohtani (Nagakute, Japan), Shinya Urata (Nagakute, Japan), Hideo Nakai (Nagakute, Japan) and Kenji Hiramoto (Nagakute, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor system of the present disclosure includes a permanent magnet motor including a stator having N-phase windings and a rotor having a permanent magnet, N being a natural number greater than or equal to three, an inverter that supplies N-phase drive currents for generating a rotating magnetic field to the stator, and a zero-phase current sup...