US Patent Issued to INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRIA on Oct. 7 for "Drive signal generation for motor" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,485, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRIA AG (Villach, Austria).

"Drive signal generation for motor" was invented by Nitin Agarwal (Torrance, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to some embodiments, a method for controlling a motor comprises receiving mechanical angle data and electrical angle data representing a position of the motor, setting an encoder offset between the mechanical angle data and the electrical angle data, determining extremum values of a phase current of the motor, adjusting the encoder offset based on the extremum values to generate an adjusted encoder offset, determining an ...