ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,315, issued on July 21, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Open-loop motor control" was invented by Sameer Kulkarni (Pune, India), Prasad Kulkarni (Bengaluru, India) and Ganapathi Hegde (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor controller adapted to be coupled to a motor having a rotor. The motor controller includes a storage device containing software. The motor controller also includes a processor core coupled to the storage device and adapted to be coupled to the motor. The processor core is configured to operate the motor in an open-loop control in response to determining a speed of the rotor determi...