ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,407, issued on July 8, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Transport system, processing system, and method of manufacturing article" was invented by Keisuke Ito (Kanagawa, Japan), Takeshi Yamamoto (Kanagawa, Japan) and Gaku Kawaguchi (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transport system includes: a transport path housing; a first magnetic force unit provided in the transport path housing; a transport vehicle that includes a second magnetic force unit provided so as to be able to face the first magnetic force unit and is able to travel along the transport path housing while being levitated by magnetic force acting between...