ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,736, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to ABB SCHWEIZ AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Transport device in the form of a long-stator linear motor" was invented by Philipp Wagner (Eggelsberg, Austria), Martin Haudum (Eggelsberg, Austria) and Joachim WeiBbacher (Eggelsberg, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to simplify the starting-up of a transport device in the form of a long-stator linear motor, a thermal design and/or an electrical design and/or a mechanical design of the transport device is checked using a time course of the electrical control variable of the drive coils for producing a product flow, and, before starting-up, ...