US Patent Issued to ABB SCHWEIZ on Sept. 23 for "Transport system and method for operating a transport system with collision monitoring" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,056, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to ABB SCHWEIZ AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Transport system and method for operating a transport system with collision monitoring" was invented by Christina Karolus (Eggelsberg, Austria) and Benjamin Reichenwallner (Eggelsberg, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To allow a movement limit or a dimension of a mover to be changed safely in a transport system in the form of a long-stator linear motor during operation of the transport system, a method provided that, during operation of the transport system, a new movement limit or a new dimension is predetermined for a first transport unit, and it ...