US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics International on Feb. 10 for "Systems, apparatuses, and methods to perform startup step detection in an internal permanent magnet synchronous machine" (American, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,115, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).

"Systems, apparatuses, and methods to perform startup step detection in an internal permanent magnet synchronous machine" was invented by Harsha Ademane (Chicago), Rosario Attanasio (Barrington, Ill.) and Dino Costanzo (Catania, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods to perform startup step detection in an internal permanent magnet synchronous machine are provided. Startup step detection may providing a motor comprising a rotor and stator, wherein the rotor may be positioned in one of six rotor step positions. The s...