ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,136, issued on July 8, was assigned to MITSUBA Corp. (Gunma, Japan).

"Motor control device, motor device, wiper device, and motor control method" was invented by Ryo Ohori (Gunma, Japan), Toshiyuki Amagasa (Gunma, Japan), Masahiro Yamada (Gunma, Japan), Atsushi Mochida (Gunma, Japan) and Tamotsu Iwazaki (Gunma, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor control device includes a driving control part and an upper limit value setting part. The driving control part controls motor driving by switching between a first driving mode and a second driving mode, and controls an output duty ratio so as not to exceed a duty ratio upper limit va...