US Patent Issued to Rockwell Automation Technologies on March 24 for "Synchronization of multiple axes in a motor drive" (Wisconsin, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,121, issued on March 24, was assigned to Rockwell Automation Technologies Inc. (Mayfield Heights, Ohio).

"Synchronization of multiple axes in a motor drive" was invented by Jonathan D. Hoffman (Milwaukee), Patrick E. Ozimek (Elm Grove, Wis.), Mark R. Cooper (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Kevin J. Riederer (Glendale, Wis.), John Sandell (Bloomington, Minn.) and David M. Brod (Bloomington, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor controller executes an axis module for each of multiple motors coupled to a shared load. A first control module passes at least one state variable to a second control module without experiencing communication del...