US Patent Issued to Ansible Motion on July 14 for "Motion platform apparatus and method of supporting a payload platform" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,780, issued on July 14, was assigned to Ansible Motion Ltd. (Wiltshire, Great Britain).

"Motion platform apparatus and method of supporting a payload platform" was invented by Robert Stevens (East Harling, Great Britain) and Kia Cammaerts (Woking, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motion platform apparatus (100) for vehicle simulation comprises: a payload platform (134) having peripheral elevation sites (136, 138, 140). The apparatus also comprises a base stage (102) having peripheral anchoring sites. A plurality of linkages (110, 112, 114) of the apparatus (100) is configured to couple the peripheral anchoring sites to ...