US Patent Issued to Steering Solutions IP Holding on Feb. 18 for "Stall thermal protection for force feedback actuator" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,235, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Steering Solutions IP Holding Corp. (Saginaw, Mich.).

"Stall thermal protection for force feedback actuator" was invented by Thomas J Stutts (Linwood, Mich.), Michael A Eickholt (Chesaning, Mich.), Steven J. Collier-Hallman (Frankenmuth, Mich.), Julie A Kleinau (Bay City, Mich.) and Prerit Pramod (Bay City, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving motor velocity data, and, in response to a determination that the motor velocity data indicates that a velocity of a motor is below a threshold velocity: calculating a thermal metric corresponding to a phase imbalance of the mo...