US Patent Issued to Beckhoff Automation on Sept. 8 for "Method for processing a planar object with the aid of a planar drive system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,080, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Beckhoff Automation GmbH (Verl, Germany).

"Method for processing a planar object with the aid of a planar drive system" was invented by Johannes Beckhoff (SchloB Holte-Stukenbrock, Germany) and Felix Schulte (Rietberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for processing a planar object 30 with the aid of a planar drive system 1, wherein the planar drive system 1 comprises at least a stator assembly 3 each comprising a plurality of coil groups 4 for generating a stator magnetic field, a stator surface 5 above the stator assembly 3, and a rotor 100. The rotor 1...