US Patent Issued to Lennox Industries on Sept. 9 for "Motor disconnection detection while the motor is switched on" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,065, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Lennox Industries Inc. (Richardson, Texas).

"Motor disconnection detection while the motor is switched on" was invented by Palanivel Subramaniam (Richardson, Texas) and Yan Yang (Wylie, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for detecting motor disconnections while a motor is switched on comprises a motor, a motor drive circuit, and a processor. The processor determines whether a set of disconnection conditions is met for more than a threshold time. In this process, the processor determines that a pulse signal that leads to power the motor is enabled, that a speed associated with the mo...