US Patent Issued to Advanced Energy Industries on July 15 for "Multi-step predictive control system" (New York, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,512, issued on July 15, was assigned to Advanced Energy Industries Inc. (Denver).

"Multi-step predictive control system" was invented by Chad S. Samuels (Fort Collins, Colo.) and David Coumou (Webster, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes systems, methods, and apparatus for adjusting at least one actuator using at least one control output value to control a plasma processing system. More specifically, the controlling is based on receiving a reference signal defining target values for a parameter that is controlled at an output within the plasma processing system; obtaining a measure of the parameter, where th...