US Patent Issued to Beckhoff Automation on July 21 for "Method for operating a planar drive system and planar drive system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,316, issued on July 21, was assigned to Beckhoff Automation GmbH (Verl, Germany).

"Method for operating a planar drive system and planar drive system" was invented by Johannes Beckhoff (SchloB Holte-Stukenbrock, Germany), Felix Schulte (Rietberg, Germany), Jan Achterberg (Duisburg, Germany), Uwe PruBmeier (Lemgo, Germany) and Lukas Bentfeld (Delbruck, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A planar drive system includes a stator module and a rotor. The stator module has a stator assembly with at least one coil arrangement that can be energized to generate a stator magnetic field above a stator surface, and a magnetic field sensor. Th...