ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,021, issued on May 20, was assigned to Westinghouse Electric Co. LLC (Cranberry Township, Pa.).
"Digital rod position indication system and method" was invented by Timothy S. Meyers (Finleyville, Pa.) and Dirk J. Boomgaard (Monroeville, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rod position indication system is disclosed. The rod position indication system includes first coils and second coils disposed around a drive rod travel housing in an alternating arrangement, a first data encoder unit connected to each of the first coils and configured to generate a first reference signal, a second data encoder unit connected to the each of the sec...