ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,788, issued on March 3, was assigned to ABB SCHWEIZ AG (Baden, Switzerland).
"Transport device" was invented by Alois Holzleitner (Braunau am Inn, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to provide a transport device that includes a planar motor, which gives greater flexibility in the movement of the transport units, at least two planar motors have opposing transport planes, wherein provided on the transport plane of a first planar motor is at least one first transport unit, which is connected, by a connecting unit, to at least one second transport unit provided on the transport plane of a second planar motor."
The patent wa...