US Patent Issued to JOHANNES HUEBNER FABRIK ELEKTRISCHER MASCHINEN on April 15 for "Control unit and method for operating a conveying means" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,622, issued on April 15, was assigned to JOHANNES HUEBNER FABRIK ELEKTRISCHER MASCHINEN GMBH (Giessen, Germany).

"Control unit and method for operating a conveying means" was invented by Thomas Blank (Reichshof, Germany) and Manfred Martis (Wetzlar, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for operating a conveyor means, in particular a hoist, a crane, a continuous conveyor or the like, and to a control unit, the conveyor means comprising a drive unit (21) and a control unit (20) for controlling the drive unit, the drive unit comprising at least two drives (43, 44), the drives being controlled by means ...