ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,688, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Rohm Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Motor drive device, motor system and electronic device" was invented by Kodai Matsumoto (Kyoto, Japan), Moto Yamada (Kyoto, Japan) and Shigeru Hirata (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a motor drive device. The motor drive device includes a terminal, a logic unit, a drive unit and a determination unit. The terminal is configured to receive a Hall signal output from a Hall sensor. The logic unit is configured to generate a control signal based on the Hall signal. The drive unit is configured to generate a driving signal bas...