US Patent Issued to Regal Beloit America on Nov. 25 for "Systems and methods for selectively enabling power factor control in an electric motor" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,176, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Regal Beloit America Inc. (Milwaukee).

"Systems and methods for selectively enabling power factor control in an electric motor" was invented by Srinivas Chandu Kutcherlapati (Tipp City, Ohio), Howard Richardson (Troy, Ohio) and Justin Magyar (Troy, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric motor is provided. The electric motor includes a motor controller configured to convert AC power to a variable frequency variable voltage power for driving the electric motor according to a commanded motor output. The motor controller includes a PFC circuit configured to control a power factor of the el...