ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,354, issued on June 30, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS INTERNATIONAL N.V. (Gevena, Switzerland).

"System and method for determining an angular position of an electric motor" was invented by Luting Ye (Shanghai), Jian Wang (Shanghai) and Xiaobo Sun (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with various embodiments of the present disclosure, an integrated circuit for determining an angular position of an electric motor having a rotatable shaft and a resolver is provided. In some embodiments, the integrated circuit comprises (i) an angle sampling module adapted to receive a signal from the resolver and to repeatedly det...