ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,892, issued on March 3, was assigned to Beckhoff Automation GmbH (Verl, Germany).
"Data transmission in a linear transport system" was invented by Jan Achterberg (Duisburg, Germany), Andreas Brinker (Bakum, Germany), Manuel Bettenworth (Vienna) and Thomas Vorbohle (Rietberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for transferring data between movable and stationary units of a linear transport system having a controller and linear motor with stator and rotor for driving the movable unit along a guide rail. The stator includes the stationary units, each with one or more drive coils. The rotor is arranged on the movable unit, w...