ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,311, issued on May 26, was assigned to EXAIL (Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France).

"Method for estimating angular errors of angle coders in precision rotary devices, device" was invented by Bernard Vau (Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France) and Mehdi Bussutil (Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for estimating angular errors of coders in a looped system including a rotating actuator, an angle coder producing a position measurements, and a calculation device controlling the actuator, said device receiving a setpoint signal and the position measurements, for looping, and calculating in a corrector a control signal. I...