ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,754, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Festo SE & Co. KG (Esslingen, Germany).
"Linear guide device" was invented by Felix Mackle (Esslingen, Germany) and Alexander Maischberger (Ostfildern-Nellingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A linear guide device having a guide carriage with two guide units, each guide unit including two guide modules abutting guide surfaces of a base structure in an operating position of the guide carriage. One of the two guide modules is an adjustable guide module, which is adjustable by means of one of two adjustment units to set a pretension between the guide modules and the guide surfaces. For sy...