ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,396, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).
"Shuntless motor control for multi-phase motors" was invented by Thorsten Bucksch (Munich), Aneel Veerwani (Munich) and Chintu Seth (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and circuits for controlling a multi-phase electric motor and measuring current through the multi-phase electric motor without using a shunt resistor are described herein. A method may comprise controlling power switches of an inverter circuit to deliver a first phase current, a second phase current, and a third phase current to a multi-phase electric motor, and determi...