ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,466, issued on June 24, was assigned to Agile Robots SE (Munich) and Beijing Siling Robot Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Modular robot joint, encoder reading head position adjustment mechanism and method for adjusting the position of an encoder reading head" was invented by Zhaopeng Chen (Beijing), Zhimin Gao (Beijing), Yuechao Zhao (Beijing), Xuebin Su (Beijing) and Qian Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention discloses a modular robot joint, encoder reading head position adjustment mechanism and method for adjusting the position of an encoder reading head, the encoder reading head position adjustment mechanism i...