US Patent Issued to Council of Scientific and Industrial Research on July 1 for "Three degrees of freedom (3DoFs) precision positioning wedge air bearing stage system (WABSS)" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,371, issued on July 1, was assigned to Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (New Delhi).

"Three degrees of freedom (3DoFs) precision positioning wedge air bearing stage system (WABSS)" was invented by Samik Dutta (Durgapur, India), Abhijit Mahapatra (Durgapur, India) and Kornel F. Ehmann (Evanston, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three degrees of freedom (3DoFs) Wedge Air Bearing Translational Stage System (WABSS) for positioning of miniature components using a parallel kinematic mechanism. The system has three kinematic sub-chains situated at 120deg apart from each other, where each sub-chain has one prismatic joint an...