US Patent Issued to The University of British Columbia on May 12 for "Displacement devices and methods for fabrication, use and control of same" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,210, issued on May 12, was assigned to The University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada).

"Displacement devices and methods for fabrication, use and control of same" was invented by Xiaodong Lu (Vancouver, Canada) and Irfan-Ur-Rab Usman (Richmond, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Displacement devices comprise a stator and a moveable stage. The stator comprises a plurality of coils shaped to provide pluralities of generally linearly elongated coil traces in one or more layers. Layers of coils may overlap in the Z-direction. The moveable stage comprises a plurality of magnet arrays. Each magnet array may comprise a plurality o...