ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,870, issued on July 1, was assigned to Zhejiang University (Hangzhou, China).

"Self-adaptive identification method for nonlinear dynamic parameters of reducer" was invented by Zheming Tong (Hangzhou, China) and Zhenxi Li (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a self-adaptive identification method for nonlinear dynamic parameters of a reducer, which belongs to the design field of a reducer. The method includes: modeling a harmonic reducer corresponding to a flexible joint as a concatemer of a rigid reducer and an elastic torsion spring, and carrying out dynamic theoretical modeling and parameter variable independen...