US Patent Issued to Magnetek on April 15 for "System and method of increasing resolution of position feedback for motor control" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,575, issued on April 15, was assigned to Magnetek Inc. (Menomonee Falls, Wis.).

"System and method of increasing resolution of position feedback for motor control" was invented by John A. Backman (Cedarburg, Wis.) and Bryan Radke (West Allis, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor drive receives a position feedback signal from an encoder operatively connected to a motor. The motor drive executes multiple position determination modules to determine multiple approximate motor shaft positions. On each iteration of a position determination module, the motor drive samples the feedback signal, increments a pulse counter when a new enco...