US Patent Issued to Terex South Dakota on Feb. 17 for "System and method for controlling a movement function of a machine" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,654, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Terex South Dakota Inc. (Watertown, S.D.).

"System and method for controlling a movement function of a machine" was invented by Preethi Zacharia (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for controlling a movement function of a machine having first and second components. A controller commands delivery of an initial threshold current to a coil for opening a valve in response to a user request to perform the movement function. The controller determines a difference between a measured value of a parameter associated with the first component and a target value. When a chang...