US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on Dec. 30 for "Motor driving apparatus and control method therefor" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,775, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Motor driving apparatus and control method therefor" was invented by Sung Do Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Joo Yeon Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Min Su Kang (Paju-si, South Korea) and Chang Seok You (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor driving apparatus includes a motor an inverter driving the motor based on a switching signal, and a controller. The controller determines a current position estimated value of the motor by applying a zero-voltage vector pulse to the switching signal when entering ...