ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,089, issued on June 10, was assigned to Beckhoff Automation GmbH (Verl, Germany).

"Method for controlling a planar drive system, and planar drive system" was invented by Klaus Neumann (Gutersloh, Germany), Benjamin Jurke (Gutersloh, Germany), Alexander Weddemann (Lippstadt, Germany), Dominik Sensen (Herzogenrath, Germany) and Keir Maguire (North Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a planar drive system includes controlling a rotor along a control path starting from a first position on a stator module, and determining a sensor pattern for magnetic field sensors of a sensor module. The sensor patte...