ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,697, issued on May 27, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).
"Arrangement for limiting rotation, and robot" was invented by Jonatan Blom (Enskede, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An arrangement for limiting rotation, the arrangement including a base structure; a drive member rotatable relative to the base structure and having a drive feature; a stopping member having at least one driven feature, wherein the stopping member is arranged to be intermittently driven relative to the base structure between a plurality of discrete positions by a continuous rotation of the drive member and by cooperation between the driv...