US Patent Issued to DTL Linear on Sept. 16 for "Actuator apparatus with light actuated position sensor and secure position verification" (Illinois, Wyoming Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,513, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to DTL Linear LLC (Cody, Wyo.).

"Actuator apparatus with light actuated position sensor and secure position verification" was invented by David Dahl (Cody, Wyo.), David E. Eichstadt (Northbrook, Ill.) and Robert Charles DeBlieck (Algonquin, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An actuator apparatus includes an actuator rod with an interior cavity and a set of rod holes. Each rod hole of the set of rod holes extends through the actuator rod to the cavity where the set of rod holes are positioned along a line. The actuator apparatus includes a light assembly positioned to light the cavity. The actu...