US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Feb. 4 for "Maintaining a temperature of an electric motor below a threshold temperature while the electric motor is stalled to generate heat" (New York, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,615, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Maintaining a temperature of an electric motor below a threshold temperature while the electric motor is stalled to generate heat" was invented by Artem Dementyev (Somerville, Mass.) and Dimitri Kanevsky (Ossinning, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic apparatus includes an electric motor, driver circuitry to drive the electric motor, a temperature sensor to detect a temperature of the electric motor, and one or more processors. The one or more processors control the driver circuitry to drive the electric motor according to a predetermined voltage...