US Patent Issued to TAU MOTORS, THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK on July 1 for "Motor control using piecewise affine model" (New York, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,161, issued on July 1, was assigned to TAU MOTORS INC. (Redwood City, Calif.) and THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK (New York).

"Motor control using piecewise affine model" was invented by Matthias Preindl (New York), Bernard William Steyaert (New York), Ethan Bagget Swint (Redwood City, Calif.), Nick Marshall Vazquez (Redwood City, Calif.) and Walter Wesley Pennington III (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and methods for motor control using piecewise affine modelling. An electronic controller may determine current values for a motor in a rotational reference frame. Each...