US Patent Issued to Agility Robotics on April 1 for "Strain-wave gear assembly having circumferentially spaced apart bridge circuits and related technology" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,264,732, issued on April 1, was assigned to Agility Robotics Inc. (Pittsburgh).

"Strain-wave gear assembly having circumferentially spaced apart bridge circuits and related technology" was invented by Jim Coy (Albany, Ore.) and Andrew Abate (Albany, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A strain-wave gear assembly in accordance with at least some embodiments of the present technology includes a circular spline, a flexspline, and a wave generator operably associated with one another. Relative rotation between the flexspline and the wave generator causes relative rotation between the circular spline and the flexspline about an axis. The stra...