ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,387, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to NIDEC GLOBAL APPLIANCE BRASIL LTDA. (Joinville-SC, Brazil).

"Method of accelerated extinguishing of residual current and method of duration control of the method of accelerated extinguishing of residual current" was invented by Claudio Eduardo Soares (Joinville-SC, Brazil), Roberto Andrich (Joinville-SC, Brazil) and Andre Dering (Joinville-SC, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method of accelerated extinguishing of residual current of a phase that opens when changing an electric position during the driving of a BLDC motor (10), under high load conditions, comprising: using the unipolar puls...