US Patent Issued to Planar Motor on March 18 for "Robotic devices and methods for fabrication, use and control of same" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,823, issued on March 18, was assigned to Planar Motor Inc. (Richmond, Canada).

"Robotic devices and methods for fabrication, use and control of same" was invented by Xiaodong Lu (Vancouver, Canada), Peter Tang (Hamilton, Canada), Alexander H. Slocum (Bow, N.H.) and Rui Chen (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments relate to magnetically moveable displacement devices or robotic devices. Particular embodiments provide systems and corresponding methods for magnetically moving multiple movable robots relative to one or more working surfaces of respective one or more work bodies, and for moving robots between...