US Patent Issued to Woodward on Oct. 27 for "On-line valve health monitor" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,932, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Woodward Inc. (Fort Collins, Colo.).

"On-line valve health monitor" was invented by Gregory A. Molenaar (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 determining health of an actuator that includes applying power to an actuator operating in a nominal operational state, capturing a first signal representative of actuator movement or actuator position, capturing a second signal representative of total actuator force, determining, based on the first signal, an inertial force value representative of ...