US Patent Issued to The Boeing on Jan. 27 for "Methods and systems for detecting degradation of actuator-position sensor" (California, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,221, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Methods and systems for detecting degradation of actuator-position sensor" was invented by Michael Bunting (Charleston, S.C.) and Dean Nguyen (Seal Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a system for determining a condition of an actuator-position sensor. The system comprises a first circuit electrically coupled with the actuator-position sensor to convert a voltage pattern generated by the actuator-position sensor to an output voltage. The system also comprises a comparator circuit electrically coupled with the first circuit and confi...