US Patent Issued to American Precision Industries on June 3 for "Gear motor with gearhead output shaft position feedback system" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,420, issued on June 3, was assigned to American Precision Industries Inc. (West Chester, Pa.).

"Gear motor with gearhead output shaft position feedback system" was invented by Navadeep Mettem (Downingtown, Pa.), Andrew Sharp (Ardmore, Pa.) and Jonathan Culp (Kennett Square, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gear motor includes a motor having a housing with first and second endbells and a wall extending therebetween defining a housing interior and a stator and a rotor disposed within the housing interior. The rotor defines a tubular motor shaft extending through the first endbell. A gearhead is driven by the motor shaft and defines ...