ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,537, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc. (Nagano, Japan).
"Motor drive control device and motor unit" was invented by Tomotaka Sakuma (Nagano, Japan), Masaaki Nishizawa (Nagano, Japan) and Masashi Muragi (Nagano, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor drive control device includes a control circuit generating a drive control signal, and a drive circuit driving a motor. The drive circuit includes a plurality of switching legs each including a high-side transistor and a low-side transistor connected in series between a power line and a ground potential, and pull-up resistors each connected between the power li...