US Patent Issued to Eaton Intelligent Power on July 14 for "Motor winding neutral switching" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,532, issued on July 14, was assigned to Eaton Intelligent Power Ltd. (Dublin).

"Motor winding neutral switching" was invented by Darshan Harish Bhatt (Chandur Bazar, India), Nilesh Dattatraya Karale (Shrigonda, India), Girish Potdar (Mundhwa, India) and Richard Strong Wallace Jr. (Saint Joseph, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor system includes a stator and a rotor situated to rotate relative to the stator. A plurality of phase windings are situated in the stator with a power circuit connected to the phase windings. A controller is configured to output control signals to the power circuit to selectively energize the phase w...