ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,158, issued on March 24, was assigned to SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & Co. KG (Bruchsal, Germany).
"Drive system having a central module, distributors and drives" was invented by Tobias Nittel (Ettlingen, Germany) and Martin SuB (Weiterstadt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive system includes a central module, distributors, and drives. Each drive is assigned a respective distributor. A first hybrid cable is led from the respective drive through a respective first cable gland of the respective distributor into the respective distributor, a second hybrid cable is led from the central module through a second cable gland into a first...