ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,425, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Pairing feature for driving DC motors with parallel capacitors in overcurrent recovery mode" was invented by Dragos Panaite (Bucharest, Romania), Ansgar Pottbacker (Grafing, Germany), Minh-Duc Dang (Munich), Alexandru Varlan (Piatra Neamt, Romania) and Daniela Burlacu (Buzau, Romania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Motor controller circuitry configured to operate two or more motors by driving the motors connected to output terminals of the motor controller circuitry. Each output terminal of the motor controller circuitry may connect to a driver cir...