ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,397, issued on July 22, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Motor control device" was invented by Masashi Doi (Kyoto, Japan), Takeo Nishikawa (Kyoto, Japan), Takeshi Ashida (Kyoto, Japan), Hiroyuki Tokusaki (Kyoto, Japan) and Liangyu Shen (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor controller includes a plurality of inverters that supply power to a corresponding motor of a plurality of motors through pulse width modulation control, a direct current power supply that supplies power to the plurality of inverters, and a capacitor connected parallel to the direct current power supply. Each of the plurality of inverters ...