US Patent Issued to AUMA RIESTER on July 8 for "Actuator and method for controlling the brake of an actuator" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,333, issued on July 8, was assigned to AUMA RIESTER GMBH & Co. KG (Mullheim, Germany).

"Actuator and method for controlling the brake of an actuator" was invented by Robert Achinger (Nuremberg, Germany), Rudolf Morlang (Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany) and Vladimir Fichte (Nuremberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an actuator with a modular system for creating a plug-in gearbox, wherein the modular system comprises at least one output gear wheel and at least one plug-in element, and wherein a plug-in gearbox with one to five stages can be created by the modular system."

The patent was filed on Sept. 2...