US Patent Issued to Electronic Theatre Controls on June 3 for "Systems and methods for controlling the position of a moving light fixture" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,509, issued on June 3, was assigned to Electronic Theatre Controls Inc. (Middleton, Wis.).

"Systems and methods for controlling the position of a moving light fixture" was invented by Nicholas Veenstra (Austin, Texas) and David K. Peck (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A moving light fixture and methods for controlling the position of the moving light fixture. The moving light fixture includes a housing, a motor operably coupled to the housing to rotate the housing about an axis of rotation, and an indexer configured to rotate in conjunction with the housing. A magnetic position encoder transmits a first position signal in...