US Patent Issued to SKF Magnetic Mechatronics; SKF Canada on Jan. 13 for "Method for compensating reactive power, associated control system, and sensor driver circuit" (French, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,864, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SKF Magnetic Mechatronics; SKF Canada Ltd. (Scarborough, Canada).

"Method for compensating reactive power, associated control system, and sensor driver circuit" was invented by Nicholas Falconar (Calgary, Canada), Jinyi Xie (Hebecourt, France) and Lakdar Sadi-Haddad (Nogent sur Marne, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system (15) for controlling a full bridge converter to compensate the reactive power consumed by an inductive position sensor for a rotor of an electrical machine supported by at least one active magnetic bearing is proposed. The inductive position sensor is supplied...