US Patent Issued to BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration on Feb. 3 for "System and method of rapidly reorienting a rotatable element" (New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,501, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc. (Nashua, N.H.).

"System and method of rapidly reorienting a rotatable element" was invented by Clifford D. Caseley (Hudson, N.H.), David B. Jordan (Hollis, N.H.) and James L. Kingston (Temple, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for causing a motor to rapidly reorient a rotatable element calculates a desired rotation rate f(Thetae) as a function of an orientation error Thetae, and calculates a current Ir that, if applied to the motor, will accelerate and then regulate the rotation rate {dot over (Theta)} equal to f(Theta...