US Patent Issued to Nuvoton Technology on March 18 for "Motor control device and motor control method" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,560, issued on March 18, was assigned to Nuvoton Technology Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Motor control device and motor control method" was invented by Chia-Hung Hung (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor control device and a motor control method are provided. The motor control device includes a memory and a controller. During an initialization period, the controller drives a brushless DC motor to change a rotor position through a drive circuit for adjusting and obtaining a starting angle and a locked exciting current corresponding to the starting angle, and the controller stores starting-angle information correspondi...