ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,264, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Schleifring GmbH (Furstenfeldbruck, Germany).
"High density rotary joint for contactless data transfer" was invented by Holger Steffens (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotating capacitive data link system includes a first body rotatable relative to a second body. The first body has one or multiple circular signal transmission lines with multiple transmission line segments. The second body has multiple circular arranged sets of receiving couplers with multiple receiving couplers. Each of the sets of receiving couplers matches to one of the circular signal transmission lines, such that ...