US Patent Issued to MAGNA SEATING on Oct. 27 for "Motor position estimation using current ripples" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,730, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to MAGNA SEATING INC. (Aurora, Canada).

"Motor position estimation using current ripples" was invented by Hanlong Yang (Novi, Mich.), Ruihang Wu (West Bloomfield, Mich.) and Matthew J. Kobberstad (Northville, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for monitoring a motor within a seat assembly in an automotive vehicle. The method comprises the steps of measuring raw current values drawn by the motor to reposition the seat assembly, temporally dividing the raw current values into sections based on size and variations in the raw current values, filtering the raw current values in e...