ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,163, issued on July 1, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Motor drive device and motor" was invented by Daisuke Sato (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor driver includes an operation clock generator, a PWM signal detector that detects a PWM signal indicating a target rotation speed input from an outside in a first cycle based on a clock from the operation clock generator, a target rotation speed converter that converts a duty ratio of the detected PWM signal into the target rotation speed, a rotation speed controller that drives the motor so that an actual rotation spee...