US Patent Issued to COMPACT MOTION on June 23 for "Linear motor" (Swiss Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,481, issued on June 23, was assigned to COMPACT MOTION GMBH (Bern, Switzerland).

"Linear motor" was invented by Michael Schmid (Bern, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A linear motor having a stator and an armature. The stator includes coils and a coil carrier. The armature includes permanent magnets. The coils impart a magnetic force to move the armature in a longitudinal direction relative to the stator within a movement path. The coils are held within a first longitudinal portion of the coil carrier. In a second longitudinal portion, the coil carrier is formed as or connected to a magnetic component having magnetic permea...