US Patent Issued to igus on Sept. 8 for "Systems for monitoring the operation of an energy chain" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,973, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to igus GmbH (Cologne, Germany).

"Systems for monitoring the operation of an energy chain" was invented by Andreas Hermey (Hennef, Germany), Thilo-Alexander Jaeker (Sankt Augustin, Germany), Dominik Barten (Meckenheim, Germany), Richard Habering (Cologne, Germany) and Konstantin Schmer (Cologne, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Monitoring systems for energy chains which guide lines, and which are displaceable along a displacement path and thereby form a movable strand, a stationary strand, and a deflection arc therebetween. According to a first aspect, one or multiple sensors are arranged st...