US Patent Issued to Kostal of America on Sept. 1 for "Human-machine interface system and method" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,511, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Kostal of America Inc. (Troy, Mich.).

"Human-machine interface system and method" was invented by Zhiping Hu (Troy, Mich.) and Xiaozhong Duan (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for accurately interpreting user input to a human-machine interface in real time involve computing a moving average force or strain value from a sensor, computing a standard deviation of the moving average force or strain value, and generating a control signal responsive to a recognized pattern of standard deviation peaks and moving average force or strain values between the standard deviatio...