ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,522, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to BRUDERER AG (Frasnacht, Switzerland).

"Method for operating a servo motor driven turning station of a stacking tool for a punch press" was invented by Josef Thomas Hafner (Rorschacherberg, Switzerland), Herbert Hogger (Gotzis, Austria) and Manuel Buhler (Arbon, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a servo motor (10) driven turning station (5, 6, 7) of a stacking tool for a punch press includes the following steps: determining a target turning acceleration curve of the turning station (5, 6, 7) in the acceleration phase (A) of the turning increment (D); carrying out ...