ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,441, issued on March 17, was assigned to Beckhoff Automation GmbH (Verl, Germany).
"Rotor for a planar drive system and planar drive system" was invented by Uwe Prussmeier (Lemgo, Germany), Jorg Neufeld (Paderborn, Germany), Johannes Beckhoff (SchloB Holte-Stukenbrock, Germany) and Felix Schulte (Rietberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotor for a planar drive system comprises a housing and at least one magnet arrangement. The housing comprises a basic housing body and a cover. The magnet arrangement is arranged in a recess of the basic housing body. The cover is attached to the basic housing body in such a way that the h...