US Patent Issued to HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND on Oct. 7 for "Performance enhanced brushless motor with virtual wye neutral point switching" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,475, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Performance enhanced brushless motor with virtual wye neutral point switching" was invented by Naison E. Mastrocola (Goshen, Conn.) and Steven A. Avritch (Bantam, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor drive system includes a three-phase motor and a virtual neutral bridge inverter circuit. The three-phase motor includes a first phase lead, a second phase lead, and a third phase lead. Each of the first phase neutral end, the second phase neutral end, and the third phase neutral end of the phase leads are separated from one another. The virtual ne...