ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,657, issued on Sept. 30.

"Method for creating gripping sequence programs" was invented by Martin Zimmer (Rheinau, Germany) and Gunther Zimmer (Rheinau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method creates gripping-task-specific gripper sequence programs of an item gripper which is controlled by a gripper control module and has a gripper main body and a gripping tool. The item gripper transmits a gripper-main-body-specific identification signal to the gripper control module. The gripper control module assigns a gripper dataset from a database to this identification signal. The dataset has an allowable value range for each settable...