US Patent Issued to Microchip Technology on Oct. 14 for "Using a deadtime interval for back EMF acquisition and measurement" (Romanian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,070, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Using a deadtime interval for back EMF acquisition and measurement" was invented by Gheorghe Turcan (Bucharest, Romania) and Grig Barbulescu (Rosu-Chiajna, Romania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for determining electrical characteristics has an acquisition circuit and a control circuit. The control circuit causes a first modulation circuit to issue a first set of modulated signals to a first source of alternating current energy, wherein the first set of modulated signals has a first deadtime and wherein a high side switch and...