US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 30 for "Transport system, mover, control device, and control method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,778, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Transport system, mover, control device, and control method" was invented by Takeshi Yamamoto (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transport system includes: a mover including a force receiving part made of soft magnetic material; and a plurality of coils arranged along the first direction, wherein the mover is movable in the first direction along the plurality of coils by a force received by the force-receiving part from a magnetic field by the plurality of coils."

The patent was filed on Sept. 28, 2021, under Application No. 17/487,616.

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