US Patent Issued to Beckhoff Automation on June 3 for "Method for controlling a planar drive system, and planar drive system" (Canadian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,078, issued on June 3, was assigned to Beckhoff Automation GmbH (Verl, Germany).

"Method for controlling a planar drive system, and planar drive system" was invented by Irina Stockem (Gutersloh, Germany), Viktor Balzer (Herford, Germany), Keir Maguire (North Vancouver, Canada) and Xiaodong Zhang (Burnaby, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a planar drive system with a stator unit and a rotor includes moving the rotor to a rotational position on the stator unit. In the rotational position, each magnet unit of the rotor covers a coil group of the stator unit which is not covered by any other magnet unit of th...