US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on March 25 for "Motor and method of controlling the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,553, issued on March 25, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Motor and method of controlling the same" was invented by Hyung Kwan Jang (Uijeongbu-si, South Korea), Hoo Dam Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Gyeong Sik Choe (Seoul, South Korea), Jun Hyeok Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea), Byung Ho Min (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Tae Gyu Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor includes a stator on which an armature coil is wound, a rotor disposed inside the stator, a superconducting field coil being wound thereon and, a controller configured to control the mot...