ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,172, issued on July 1, was assigned to MARQUARDT GMBH (Rietheim-Weilheim, Germany).
"Control unit for controlling a motor" was invented by Efstratios Petrou (Constance, Germany) and Guanwei Wu (Pudong Shanghai, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a control unit (1) for a motorized device (10) comprising: a brushless motor (20), a power supply (30), an operating unit (40), which can be activated by a user, wherein the control unit (1) is designed at least for controlling the commutation of the motor (20) by a plurality of circuit breakers (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17) connected to the power supply, and for initiati...