ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,237,752, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to HTS LLC (Houston).
"Linear electric device" was invented by Carlos Marcelo Todeschini Hilgert (Bento Goncalves, Brazil) and Gustavo Ludwig Schneider (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric device has a driveshaft with at least one stator cylinder positioned between opposing, curvilinear shaped cams mounted on the driveshaft, where the center axis of the stator cylinder is parallel with but spaced apart from the driveshaft axis. A magnet assembly is disposed in each end of the stator cylinder, with one magnet assembly engaging one cam and the other magnet assembly enga...