US Patent Issued to ALLFLEX EUROPE on Sept. 2 for "Gripper for manipulating a device for identifying an animal and/or removing tissue from an animal comprising holding means with remote actuation" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,599, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to ALLFLEX EUROPE SAS (Vitre, France).

"Gripper for manipulating a device for identifying an animal and/or removing tissue from an animal comprising holding means with remote actuation" was invented by Bruno Teychene (Mouzieys-Teulet, France) and Philippe Blanc-Tailleur (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a clamp (3) for handling a device for identifying an animal and/or sampling animal tissue, said clamp (3) comprising two jaws (32, 33), a handle (31) for moving said jaws (32, 33) together, and means (321) for securing an element of said identificatio...