ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,254, issued on May 27, was assigned to Beckhoff Automation GmbH (Verl, Germany).
"Stator module for a linear transport system" was invented by Tim Kaulmann (Paderborn, Germany), Dirk Otterpohl (Rietberg, Germany) and Marc Hegselmann (Schloss Holte Stukenbrock, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stator module of a linear transport system includes a plurality of drive coils, which are energizable and form part of a stator of a linear motor. The stator module also includes actuation electronics, where the drive coils are actuatable by the actuation electronics. The actuation electronics includes at least an actuation element, whic...