US Patent Issued to Beckhoff Automation on Jan. 13 for "Method for processing an object with the aid of a planar drive system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,861, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Beckhoff Automation GmbH (Verl, Germany).

"Method for processing an object with the aid of a planar drive system" was invented by Felix Schulte (Rietberg, Germany), Johannes Beckhoff (SchloB Holte-Stukenbrock, Germany) and Hans Beckhoff (Verl, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for processing an object with the aid of a planar drive system. The planar drive system comprises at least one stator assembly, each having a plurality of coil groups for generating a stator magnetic field, a stator surface above the stator assembly, and at least one rotor comprising a plurality ...