US Patent Issued to ABB SCHWEIZ on Dec. 9 for "Apparatus and method of operating twistlock and associated robot" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,645, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to ABB SCHWEIZ AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Apparatus and method of operating twistlock and associated robot" was invented by Ye Tian (Shanghai) and Jibo Yang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an apparatus and a method for operating a twistlock and an associated robot. The apparatus comprises a clamping assembly comprising a plurality of pairs of clamping portions spaced apart by different distances and adapted to engage with different types of twistlocks, respectively; and an operating assembly adapted to drive one of the plurality of pairs of clamp...