ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,993, issued on March 18.
"Fluid actuator operability improvement with fast energy storage" was invented by Mark Graham Turner (Cleveland), Dennis E. Culley (Cleveland) and Jonathan L. Kratz (Cleveland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for actuating fluid flow is disclosed. The system includes a fluid actuator, an electric motor for driving the fluid actuator, a motor controller for controlling the motor, a local energy storage device for powering the motor, a stability monitor that assesses instability of operation of the fluid actuator, and a mitigation control that mitigates instability of the fluid actuator via the motor co...