ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,976, issued on April 29, was assigned to Nidec Motor Corp. (St. Louis).
"Motor control system providing single output signal and high number of speed settings" was invented by Jared Joseph Lesicko (St. Louis), Douglas D. Glenn (Highland, Ill.) and Prakash B. Shahi (St. Louis).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor control system providing at least seventeen speed settings using industry standard control signals and an industry standard five pin speed connector. One speed monitoring pin transmits an output signal for monitoring the speed of the motor, and four speed setting pins receive input signals for setting the speed. One of the sp...