US Patent Issued to THE BOEING on March 31 for "Force control improvement through combined stroke feedforward and stroke feedback compensation" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,876, issued on March 31, was assigned to THE BOEING COMPANY (Arlington, Va.).

"Force control improvement through combined stroke feedforward and stroke feedback compensation" was invented by Alessandro Vieira (Seattle) and Gerard V. Bohr (Orange, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Control compensation methods and configurations for controlling actuators that are applying forces to a test article. The control compensation methods and configurations reduce force control tracking errors by the use of combined stroke feedforward and stroke feedback signals. These counteract errors caused by multi-actuator cross coupling and other cha...