ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,487, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Murata Machinery Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Motor system and motor drive method" was invented by Daisuke Fukushima (Inuyama, Japan), Yoshiyuki Azuma (Inuyama, Japan) and Atsuo Nagasawa (Inuyama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor system includes a motor driver; motors that generate a driving force by power supplied by the motor driver; a supply switch that switches a circuit so that the power supplied by the motor driver is supplied to any one of the motors; an output controller that controls the motor driver so that the motor driver supplies power matched to the one motor to which the pow...