ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,971, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO LTD. (Ibaraki, Japan).

"Control device for electric brake, control method for electric brake, and motor control device" was invented by Koki Takimoto (Hitachinaka, Japan), Daisuke Goto (Hitachinaka, Japan) and Takuya Usui (Hitachinaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor control device includes a first control unit and/or a second control unit serving as a control unit. The control unit outputs, to a first motor drive unit, a first current command for energizing a first winding set so that a first torque, which is a torque greater than a torque generated in a brake motor...