US Patent Issued to Magvad on Jan. 20 for "Magnetic drive apparatus for translating rotational motion to nutational motion" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,464, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Magvad LLC (Loomis, Calif.).

"Magnetic drive apparatus for translating rotational motion to nutational motion" was invented by Richard Wampler (Loomis, Calif.), David Lancisi (Folsom, Calif.) and Robert Mastromattei (Granite Bay, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic driver generates a magnetic field that rotates about an axis and induces nutation in a disc with an array of magnets (wobble plate). The magnetic driver can be a drive disc with an array of magnets and rotated by a drive motor, or can be electromagnetic coils sequentially energized, to provide the rotating magnetic field...