ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,782, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Pro-Beam GmbH & Co. KGAA (Gilching, Germany).

"Positioning device and method for positioning wire ends in the manufacture of an electrical machine" was invented by Jorg Walther (Chemnitz, Germany) and Holger Uhlmann (Lobnitz, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A positioning device (10; 50; 60) for positioning wire ends (14) in the manufacture of an electrical machine (12) has a positioning unit (13) which has an alignment element (22a) and a counter-alignment element (22b) which are arranged one above the other in two parallel planes (16, 18) and can be displaced relative to each other along ...