ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,338, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to B&R Industrial Automation GmbH (Eggelsberg, Austria).
"Transport device" was invented by Stefan Flixeder (Eggelsberg, Austria), Michael Hauer (Eggelsberg, Austria) and Martin Haudum (Eggelsberg, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a transport device in the form of a planar motor. In one example embodiment, the transport device includes at least one transport segment forming a transport plane, at least one transport unit movable in the transport plane in at least two-dimensions associated with two main movement directions, and first an...