US Patent Issued to Woodward on June 30 for "Thrust reverser actuation system lock tester" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,408, issued on June 30, was assigned to Woodward Inc. (Fort Collins, Colo.).

"Thrust reverser actuation system lock tester" was invented by Jiahua Lu (Montebello, Calif.).

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, method for testing operation of a thrust reverser actuator lock includes determining, by a controller, that an actuator output of a controllable actuator is at a predetermined first position, locking, by the controller, an actuator lock configured to prevent movement of the actuator output of an actuator away from the predetermined first position, initiatin...