ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,526, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Ingersoll-Rand Industrial U.S. Inc. (Davidson, N.C.).
"Active magnetic bearing apparatus" was invented by Esa Heikki Matias Vikman (Espoo, Finland), Fredrik Boxberg (Espoo, Finland), Juha T. Saari (Espoo, Finland), Petri J. Maki-Ontto (Espoo, Finland) and Lauri Juhani Salmia (Espoo, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An active magnetic bearing apparatus for supporting a rotor of a rotary machine comprises an axial magnetic bearing unit and a radial magnetic bearing unit mounted directly to one another. One of the axial magnetic bearing unit and the radial magnetic bearing unit is mounted to...