ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,899, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).
"Method for operating a planar motor" was invented by Michael Hauer (Eggelsberg, Austria) and Stefan Flixeder (Eggelsberg, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To reduce the risk of collisions of transport units or of a transport unit with an obstacle in the movement plane in a planar motor, at least two movement paths in the movement plane are expanded two-dimensionally around the respective movement path, at least in sections, to form a movement route in the movement plane. A conflict zone, in which there is a risk of collision, is determined by checking...