ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,469, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Ewellix AB (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"Linear module" was invented by Doowon Han (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A linear module has a housing, at least one guide rail on a bottom wall within the housing, and a carriage that is longitudinally translatable relative to the housing on the guide rail. The carriage extends from within the housing through at least one longitudinal slit in a side face of the housing perpendicular to the bottom wall to an outside of the housing. At least one flexible slit seal seals the longitudinal slit in a section of the slit where the carriage d...