ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,392, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Motor angular position control" was invented by Jian Wu (Houston), Ramakrishna Madhireddy (Cypress, Texas) and Nathaniel Wicks (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor controller to control rotational speed of an output shaft of an electric motor. The motor controller includes a proportional controller and a time-optimal controller. The proportional controller controls the rotational speed when a present rotational position of the shaft is between a target rotational position and a switching point, inclusively. The time-optima...