ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,354, issued on May 6, was assigned to Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, R.I.).
"Aircraft actuator verification system and method" was invented by Clifton Lee Harrell (Arlington, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, an aircraft includes an actuator and a flight control computer interfaced with the actuator. The flight control computer is configured to: increase an initiating force output by an initiating channel of the actuator; stop the increasing of the initiating force in response to observing restraining forces on restraining channels of the actuator; hold the initiating force at a quiescent initiating value ...