US Patent Issued to Hamilton Sundstrand on Aug. 25 for "Variable dither control system for a fluid actuator" (Massachusetts, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,516, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Hamilton Sundstrand Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Variable dither control system for a fluid actuator" was invented by Gary M. McBrien (South Glastonbury, Conn.) and James Saloio (Ludlow, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluid system has a fluid actuator that receives a fluid to cause movement of a component. A valve selectively controls the flow of fluid to the fluid actuator. A motor for the valve is provided with an electric voltage or current. A control applies a pulse width modulation variation to the supplied voltage or current. The control is operable to vary the pulse width modulation...