ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,188, issued on May 27, was assigned to AAC Technologies (Nanjing) Co. Ltd. (Nanjing, China).

"Multi-mover direct drive transmission system" was invented by Shun Guo (Nanjing, China), Weiling Shi (Nanjing, China), Lin Qian (Nanjing, China) and Xueyuan Zhu (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The multi-mover direct drive transmission system includes multiple stator units, a guide rail, multiple mover units, and a controller. Each of the multiple stator units includes a stator, a winding, a photoelectric switch, a reading head, and a driver. Each of the multiple mover units includes a mover, and a magnetic steel, two stoppers,...