ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,032, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Beckhoff Automation GmbH (Verl, Germany).

"Assembly of stator modules for a planar drive system" was invented by Uwe Prussmeier (Lemgo, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly of stator modules for a planar drive system comprises a first stator module and a second stator module, The first stator module and/or the second stator module each comprise stator segments with a segment width, the stator segments being energizable, where the stator segments can provide a magnetic field in order to interact with the magnet arrangements of a rotor for driving and/or holding the rotor of the pla...