US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois on Oct. 27 for "Electronic pole-changing for induction motors" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,732, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Ill.).

"Electronic pole-changing for induction motors" was invented by Elie Libbos (Champaign, Ill.), Arijit Banerjee (Urbana, Ill.), Debranjan Mukherjee (Urbana, Ill.), Soumil Chaubal (Urbana, Ill.) and Anuj Maheshwari (Urbana, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An induction motor includes a plurality of flux linkage configurations that control current to drive relative movement between a rotor and a stator. Each flux configuration powers a different number of poles. A controller is configured to droop switch flux linkage configurat...