US Patent Issued to Discovery Energy on March 17 for "Sensorless position detection for electric machine" (Wisconsin, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,505, issued on March 17, was assigned to Discovery Energy LLC (Kohler, Wis.).

"Sensorless position detection for electric machine" was invented by Isaac S. Frampton (Strattanville, Pa.), Adam Larson (Mequon, Wis.) and Jonathan Bykowski (Shorewood, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric machine includes a rotor, a stator, at least one measurement circuit, and a controller. The rotor includes a plurality of salient poles arranged radially around a rotation axis of the electric machine and spaced apart from the rotation axis of the electric machine. The stator includes a plurality of coils configured to selectively align with ...