ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,502, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Sysko AG Systeme & Komponenten (Jona, Switzerland).

"Drive coil device" was invented by Florian Wisskirchen (Weingarten, Germany), Norbert Helbling (Jona, Switzerland), Fred Partzsch (Neukirch, Germany) and Michael Wisskirchen (Bad Wurzach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive coil device, in particular for an oscillating armature pump, includes at least one coil carrier, further includes at least one coil wire that is wound onto the coil carrier to form a coil, and at least one coil enclosure configured to at least partly enclose the coil, wherein the coil enclosure comprises at leas...