US Patent Issued to Aescape on Aug. 26 for "Method and system for electromechanical safety for robotic manipulators" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,430, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Aescape Inc. (New York).

"Method and system for electromechanical safety for robotic manipulators" was invented by Nicholas Akiona (New York), Eric A. Litman (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and David Walsh (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a base and a robotic arm operatively coupled to the base via a connector. The robotic arm includes a set of links interconnected by a set of joints. A first link from the set of links is operatively coupled to the connector. Each joint from the set of joints includes a brake from a set of brakes, each brake from the set of brakes configure...