ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,116, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to B/E Aerospace Inc. (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

"Actuator control system with individual variable speed control" was invented by Suresh Babu Kappa Venkata (Bengaluru, India) and Srikanth Annumandla (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An actuator control system for an assembly including moveable components such as a passenger seat. The system includes a first motor having a first rotating shaft, a second motor having a second rotating shaft, and a plurality of gear assemblies including a gear disposed between the shafts. A controller operates to move each gear independently between a ne...