ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,771, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to E-Circuit Motors Inc. (Needham Heights, Mass.).
"Axial flux actuators using printed circuit board armatures" was invented by Steven Robert Shaw (Bozeman, Mont.), George Harder Milheim (Bozeman, Mont.) and Ryan Terrence Duffy (Burlington, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, an energy conversion device may include a magnet assembly in a fixed frame, and first and second printed circuit board (PCB) armatures configured to be independently movable relative to the fixed frame. The magnet assembly may include one or more magnets configured to generate first magnetic flux withi...