ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,022, issued on April 29, was assigned to Beckhoff Automation GmbH (Verl, Germany).
"Planar drive system" was invented by Lukas Bentfeld (Delbruck, Germany), Rolf Brinkmann (Bad Salzuflen, Germany), Patrick Jebramcik (Gutersloh, Germany) and Tim Kaulmann (Paderborn, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A planar drive system comprises a stator and a rotor. The stator comprises a plurality of energizable stator conductors. The rotor comprises a magnet device having at least one rotor magnet. A magnetic interaction can be produced between energized stator conductors of the stator and the magnet device in order to drive the rotor. The st...