ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,119, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Cyltronic AG (Winterthur, Switzerland).

"Electric cylinder, electric cylinder having a magnet for determining the positon of a rotary element of an electric cylinder and use of a magnet for determining the position of a rotary element" was invented by Jeremias Wehrli (Winterthur, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an electric cylinder with a motor, control device and spindle device arranged inside the housing for generating a linear movement of the extending element. The rotor of the motor and the rotating element of the spindle device have the same axis of ro...