US Patent Issued to Black & Decker on June 30 for "Field-oriented sensorless brushless motor control in a power tool" (Maryland, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,355, issued on June 30, was assigned to Black & Decker Inc. (New Britain, Conn.).

"Field-oriented sensorless brushless motor control in a power tool" was invented by Girish Yajurvedi (Towson, Md.), Mehdi Ramezani (Cockeysville, Md.), Michael K. Forster (White Hall, Md.), John C. Vanko (Timonium, Md.), Tal Gottesman (Lutherville, Md.) and Levent Gokdere (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power tool is provided including a housing, a brushless motor disposed within the housing, a power switch circuit that supplies power from a power source to the brushless motor, and a controller configured to apply a drive signal to the power s...