US Patent Issued to Steering Solutions IP Holding on Oct. 7 for "System and method for torque limiting of DC machines" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,493, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Steering Solutions IP Holding Corp. (Saginaw, Mich.).

"System and method for torque limiting of DC machines" was invented by Md Abid Hossain (Saginaw, Mich.), Ashish Verma (Saginaw, Mich.) and Thomas J. Stutts (Midland, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technical solutions are described for controlling a brushed direct current (DC) motor, including: determining, based on one of a motor current command or an actual motor current, a brush voltage drop across a set of brushes of the brushed DC motor; determining, based on the brush voltage drop, at least one of: a first torque limit based on a su...