US Patent Issued to INDRIVETEC on Sept. 15 for "Linear drive for track-guided means of land transportation or railway vehicles" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,828, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to INDRIVETEC AG (Zurich, Switzerland).

"Linear drive for track-guided means of land transportation or railway vehicles" was invented by Eric Julen (Zurich, Switzerland) and Martin Vinzens (Zurich, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a linear drive for track-guided land transportation or railway vehicles, which includes a primary part and a secondary part in magnetically active connection thereto, the primary part is formed as a reaction track and the secondary part includes a number of magnets. The secondary part includes at least one first magnetic wheel. The number of magnets is arr...