ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,745, issued on June 10, was assigned to SEMES Co. LTD. (Cheonan-si, South Korea).
"Transport apparatus" was invented by Jae Ik Cho (Seoul, South Korea), Kil Hyun Cho (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Chung Il Cho (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transport apparatus includes a transport rail extending along a predetermined path, a transport vehicle configured to be movable along the transport rail to transport a material, and a brake unit mounted on the transport vehicle to be adjacent to the transport rail and configured to apply an eddy current braking force to the transport vehicle."
The patent was filed on Nov. 2...