ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,654, issued on April 14, was assigned to Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies LLC (Kansas City, Mo.).

"Electromagnetic vibration system and method" was invented by Seth D. Hartman (Belton, Mo.) and Erik Joseph Timpson (Olathe, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for testing a device comprises a stator, an armature, a power input, a sensor, and a processing element. The stator includes stator coils, and the armature is movably coupled to the stator. The armature supports the device and comprises rotor coils. The power input is configured to couple with a power supply to provide power to the stator coils and/or the r...