ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,062, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Fisher Controls International LLC (Marshalltown, Iowa).
"Methods and apparatus to analyze valve characteristics" was invented by Shannon Jelken (Marshalltown, Iowa), John Fuller (Marshalltown, Iowa), Bret Dahme (Tama, Iowa) and Aaron Shelly (Mount Healthy, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus to analyze valve characteristics are disclosed. A disclosed example apparatus to determine at least one characteristic of a valve includes at least one memory, machine readable instructions, and processor circuitry to at least one of instantiate or execute the machine readable instruct...