Raser Technologies Inc. (Provo, UT), a developer of advanced electric motor and controller technology for electric motors and controllers, announced that it has received a notice of allowance for a motor controller patent that was filed in on July 7, 2004 (Patent Application Serial Number 10/885,103). Raser expects the actual patent to be issued in January of 2006. This is the second of several Raser patent applications to receive a notice of allowance incorporating its initial proprietary Symetron� concepts.
"Our business model is based on the uniqueness of our intellectual property, and this acknowledgment by the US Patent Office serves to confirm that we're working in uncharted territory," said Raser Chief Technology Officer Tim Fehr. "We believe that the concepts covered by this patent are the building blocks for breakthroughs in the efficiency of variable speed motor drives, offering the potential for significant energy savings for existing ac induction motors. The electric motor drive technology covered by this patent is already being applied to our work with Advanced Energy for the State Technologies Advancement Collaborative and the US Department of Energy."
Raser has 14 patents pending, and is in the process of preparing additional patent applications for related technologies to strengthen its intellectual property portfolio.
