ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,408, issued on March 4, was assigned to Lyft Inc. (San Francisco).
"Motor controller heat dissipating systems and methods" was invented by Adam Christopher Bender (Mountain View, Calif.), Nikola Popov (Burlingame, Calif.) and Chen-Yu Lin (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A micromobility transit vehicle may include a wheel, an electric motor associated with the wheel, and a motor controller configured to control a motive force provided by the electric motor to the wheel. The motor controller may include a printed circuit board (PCB), one or more MOSFETs attached to the PCB, and a respective aperture defined through t...