US Patent Issued to Microchip Technology on Sept. 1 for "Control of a regenerative brake for a motor system and related systems, methods, and devices" (Romanian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,500, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Control of a regenerative brake for a motor system and related systems, methods, and devices" was invented by Sergiu Oprea (Bucharest, Romania), Mihnea Rosu-Hamzescu (Bucharest, Romania) and Marius Dracea (Bucharest, Romania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller for a motor system includes an input terminal to receive a signal indicating a speed of an electric motor and a regenerative brake current interpolator to indicate a brake current to be applied to the electric motor responsive to the speed of the electric motor. Values of the brake cur...