ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,214, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Synapticon GmbH (Schonaich, Germany).

"Motor device with thermally integrated servo drive unit" was invented by Simon Fischinger (Schonaich, Germany), Andrija Feher (Schonaich, Germany), Nathanael Peltzer (Schonaich, Germany) and Florian Kock (Schonaich, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to an integrated motor device with a motor unit and a servo drive unit attached to the motor unit, where the servo drive unit comprises a first printed circuit board with one or more power converting inverter elements; where the servo drive unit comprises at least an encoder read hea...