ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,759, issued on May 20, was assigned to ABB SCHWEIZ AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Sealing assembly and robot" was invented by Linjian Liang (Shanghai), Xiaodong Cao (Shanghai), Kaiwei Chen (Shanghai), Jiajie Sha (Shanghai) and Yun Ha (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sealing assembly which has a housing adapted to be arranged on and cover an end of a first component of a robot. The sealing assembly includes a circumferential coupling section; a flange adapted to be arranged on and cover an end of a second component of the robot that is coaxially rotatable relative to the first component; and an elastic sealing ring. The elastic s...