US Patent Issued to Festo on Nov. 3 for "Method and device for determining a piston or wheel position" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,105, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Festo SE & Co. KG (Esslingen, Germany).

"Method and device for determining a piston or wheel position" was invented by Gabriel Daemmer (Esslingen, Germany), Daniel Klassen (Esslingen, Germany), Holger Bohm (Donzdorf, Germany), David Rager (Nuertingen, Germany), Martin Klosok (Waiblingen, Germany) and Daniel Lanzinner (Constance, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and device for determining a piston or wheel position in a pneumatic drive and/or gripper system, comprising a wheel/piston arrangement which has a wheel and a piston coupled to the wheel. The method for determining a piston...