US Patent Issued to Texas Instruments on May 27 for "Methods and apparatus to detect a stall of a stepper motor" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,266, issued on May 27, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).

"Methods and apparatus to detect a stall of a stepper motor" was invented by Ganapathi Shankar (Bangalore, India), Varun Garg (Bengaluru, India) and Venkata Naresh Kotikelapudi (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example apparatus includes: memory including machine-readable instructions; programmable circuitry configured to execute the machine-readable instructions of the memory configured to: determine a first value of power transferred to a stepper motor during a first operation of the stepper motor; determine a second value of power transferred...