ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,464, issued on March 17, was assigned to MULTIPOLAR DEVELOPMENT Corp. (McCalla, Ala.).

"Dynamic pole configuration control" was invented by Shaun Martin McCutcheon (Birmingham, Ala.) and Babak Vaseghi (Edmonton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a pole configuration device may dynamically control pole configurations of an electric machine. The pole configuration device may receive input data indicating information associated with the electric machine. The pole configuration device may determine, based on the input data, a desired pole configuration of the electric machine. The pole configuration device m...