US Patent Issued to Woodward on July 14 for "Integrated machine speed signal waveform capture" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,466, issued on July 14, was assigned to Woodward Inc. (Fort Collins, Colo.).

"Integrated machine speed signal waveform capture" was invented by David L. Ried (Severance, Colo.), Steve Pacheco (Fort Collins, Colo.), Bryan W. Guild (Fort Collins, Colo.) and Dave Rubenthaler (Fort Collins, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a method for controlling a turbine engine that includes measuring, by a speed sensor, waveforms indicative of a speed of a rotating machine. Receiving the waveforms from the speed sensor and providing data representing the waveforms to...