ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,019, issued on April 15, was assigned to VON ARDENNE Asset GmbH &Co. KG (Dresden, Germany).
"Transport device and method" was invented by Christoph Kaiser (Dresden, Germany), Carsten Deus (Dresden, Germany), Markus Berendt (Radeberg, Germany), Matthias Smolke (Dresden, Germany), Knut Barthel (Dresden, Germany) and Michael Hentschel (Dresden, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and devices for transporting substrates. A transport device may include a plurality of rotational bodies, where each rotational body is rotatably attached for transporting a rod-shaped workpiece. The transport device may...