ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,771, issued on May 20, was assigned to Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Motor control device" was invented by Mitsuru Matsubara (Tokyo), Yuuri Takano (Tokyo), Yusuke Uei (Tokyo), Terutomo Kondo (Tokyo), Tetsuo Yanada (Tokyo) and Kazuaki Tobari (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor-controller device includes a position control system that controls the position of a machine end connected to the motor. The motor-controller device receives a first speed directive from a high-level controller, stored in the position control system to output a motor axis position response to the high-level controller, includi...