ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,116, issued on March 24, was assigned to ANPEC ELECTRONICS Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Motor starting circuit having dead time setting mechanism" was invented by Kun-Min Chen (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor starting circuit having a dead time setting mechanism is provided. The motor starting circuit includes a rotational speed detection circuit, a start-up commutation selector circuit, a control circuit, a driver circuit and an output stage circuit. The rotational speed detection circuit detects a rotational speed of a motor. The start-up commutation selector circuit determines whether or not to set a dead...