Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
Note/Remarks:
Claim 20 is rejected. The claim as drawn is a dependent claim. It does not depend on any other claim.
Repeated calls to one of the Attorney’s representative, Joanna Geld, who signed the last IDS filed on 11/19/25 are unsuccessful.
The power attorney filed on 4/3024 is incomplete. A phone number of the new Attorney, Mr. Robert A. Penchuk, is not provided.
Hence, claim 20 is rejected.
Information Disclosure Statement
The information disclosure statements (IDS) submitted on 11/19/25 and 4/30/24 are in compliance with the provisions of 37 CFR 1.97. Accordingly, the information disclosure statement is being considered by the examiner.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 112
Claim 20 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(b) or 35 U.S.C. 112 (pre-AIA ), second paragraph, as being indefinite for failing to particularly point out and distinctly claim the subject matter which the inventor or a joint inventor (or for applications subject to pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, the applicant), regards as the invention.laim fails to
The claim does not state which claim it depends on…..A claim in dependent form shall contain a reference to a claim previously set forth and then specify a further limitation of the subject matter claimed.
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 112(d):
(d) REFERENCE IN DEPENDENT FORMS.—Subject to subsection (e), a claim in dependent form shall contain a reference to a claim previously set forth and then specify a further limitation of the subject matter claimed. A claim in dependent form shall be construed to incorporate by reference all the limitations of the claim to which it refers.
The following is a quotation of pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, fourth paragraph:
Subject to the following paragraph [i.e., the fifth paragraph of pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112], a claim in dependent form shall contain a reference to a claim previously set forth and then specify a further limitation of the subject matter claimed. A claim in dependent form shall be construed to incorporate by reference all the limitations of the claim to which it refers.
Claim 20 is rejected under 35 U.S.C. 112(d) or pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 112, 4th paragraph, as being of improper dependent form for failing to further limit the subject matter of the claim upon which it depends, or for failing to include all the limitations of the claim upon which it depends. The claim as drawn is a dependent claim. It does not depend on any other claim. Applicant may cancel the claim(s), amend the claim(s) to place the claim(s) in proper dependent form, rewrite the claim(s) in independent form, or present a sufficient showing that the dependent claim(s) complies with the statutory requirements.
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 1-19 are allowed.
The following is an examiner’s statement of reasons for allowance:
Tan discloses a multi-phase motor drive system that includes three half-bridge inverter modules coupled to a high-voltage bus and controlled with a system controller to drive a three-phase motor, however, Tan fails to teach a method for motor voltage reconstruction by Analog to Digital Converter (ADC) oversampling and averaging comprising: measuring a first phase voltage with an ADC, the first phase voltage proportional to a first duty cycle of a first Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) signal; measuring a second phase voltage with the ADC, the second phase voltage proportional to a second duty cycle of a second PWM signal, wherein the first PWM signal and the second PWM signal control consecutive phases of a three-phase motor; and reconstructing from the first phase voltage and the second phase voltage, a third duty cycle of a third PWM signal of the three-phase motor; Tan also fails to teach the limitations of performing a plausibility check by comparing each of a reconstructed alpha voltage and reconstructed beta voltage to a corresponding required alpha voltage and a required beta voltage, wherein the reconstructed alpha voltage and the reconstructed beta voltage are derived from the first phase voltage and the second phase voltage.
Any comments considered necessary by applicant must be submitted no later than the payment of the issue fee and, to avoid processing delays, should preferably accompany the issue fee. Such submissions should be clearly labeled “Comments on Statement of Reasons for Allowance.”
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure. Tan (US 2023/0387841) and Gilliom (US 2013/0154588) disclose motor voltage reconstruction analog to digital converter.
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/PEGUY JEAN PIERRE/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2845