ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,223, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Beckhoff Automation GmbH (Verl, Germany).
"Method for controlling a planar drive system and planar drive system" was invented by Uwe Prussmeier (Lemgo, Germany) and Jan Achterberg (Duisburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a method for controlling a planar drive system, where the planar drive system comprises at least a controller, a stator module having a stator surface, and a rotor that may is positionable and movable on the stator surface. The method comprises positioning an object on a rotor in a first arrangement state of the object in a positioning step, c...