ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,527, issued on Nov. 18, 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 embodiment, the transport device includes at least one transport segment, first and second coil groups, frive magnets and a control unit. The at least one transport segment forms a transport plane and includes at least one transport unit that moves in ...