ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,475, issued on July 14, was assigned to SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES SAS (Rueil Malmaison, France).

"Linear motors with yokes having inclined marginal teeth" was invented by Thomas Kammerer (Friesenheim, Germany), Frank Brechtefeld (Offenburg, Germany) and Stefan Ohnemus (Schuttertal, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A linear motor for a transport system, in particular for a multi-carrier system, has a yoke comprising a plurality of teeth arranged after one another and a plurality of drive coils arranged at the teeth. The drive coils are configured to cooperate with drive magnets of a transport element to bring about a drive f...