ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,590, issued on April 14, was assigned to Nuovo Pignone Tecnologie SRL (Florence, Italy).

"Methods and systems for synchronizing synchronous motors with electric grid based on detected shaft position" was invented by Marco Passeri (Florence, Italy), Michele Frattoni (Florence, Italy), Riccardo Bagagli (Florence, Italy) and Simone Bassani (Florence, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system (100) is used for starting and synchronizing synchronous motors (10) with power electricity of an electric grid (20). The system (100) includes a variable frequency driver (30) for starting the synchronous motors (10), and an electrical diver...