ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,058, issued on June 2, was assigned to Steering Solutions IP Holding Corp. (Saginaw, Mich.).

"System and method for surface-mounted permanent magnet motor control using peak torque" was invented by Md Abid Hossain (Saginaw, Mich.) and Thomas J. Stutts (Linwood, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technical solutions are described for controlling a surface-mounted permanent magnet (SPM) motor. A method for controlling a surface-mounted permanent magnet (SPM) motor includes: determining a peak torque value; determining a limited torque command based on a torque command which does not exceed the peak torque value; determining, based on ...