ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,480, issued on July 29, was assigned to PACCAR Inc (Bellevue, Wash.).
"Actuation system, and method" was invented by Stephen Elliott (Denton, Texas), Austin Walker (Denton, Texas), Kevin Vardas (Denton, Texas) and Drew Bell (Denton, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Sine pulse actuation systems and methods are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method for actuating an actuator includes: supplying a first input to the actuator, where the first input corresponds to a rising edge of a first sine function; supplying a second input to the actuator, where the second input corresponds to a generally constant amplitude plateau; and su...