US Patent Issued to Dyson Technology on May 27 for "Method of determining a position of a rotor of a brushless permanent magnet motor" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,265, issued on May 27, was assigned to Dyson Technology Ltd. (Malmesbury, Great Britain).

"Method of determining a position of a rotor of a brushless permanent magnet motor" was invented by Mate Horvat (Swindon, Great Britain) and Xiaoxu Zhang (Bristol, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining a position of a rotor of a brushless permanent magnet motor includes measuring a current value indicative of current flowing through a phase winding of the motor and providing a reference voltage value indicative of a voltage applied to the phase winding of the motor. The method includes calculating a phase of back E...