US Patent Issued to Hilti on July 14 for "Control method for braking an electric motor, control method for controlling an electric drive unit and computer program product" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,524, issued on July 14, was assigned to Hilti AG (Schaan, Liechtenstein).

"Control method for braking an electric motor, control method for controlling an electric drive unit and computer program product" was invented by Christian Augustin (Poettmes, Germany), Xiaodong Zhang (Munich) and Walter Wissmach (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Control method for braking an electric motor (7) of an electric handheld power tool (1), the electric motor (7) including a stator winding (12) and a rotor winding (14), wherein the method includes a) switching (S1) the electric motor (7) from motor operation to braking operation, b) reversing th...