US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics on May 13 for "Method for controlling a BLDC motor and corresponding control circuit" (Italian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,156, issued on May 13, was assigned to STMicroelectronics S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).

"Method for controlling a BLDC motor and corresponding control circuit" was invented by Giuseppe D'Angelo (Tufino, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a BLDC motor includes controlling the rotational speed or position of the BLDC motor based on a position of the rotor of the motor. The BLDC motor is driven by a three-phase inverter. A PWM signal is generated for three PWM phases, each including a pair of complementary signals with dead-time and having a duty cycle based on the current position of the rotor. The compleme...