US Patent Issued to Altec Industries on Dec. 2 for "Cooperative high-capacity and high-dexterity manipulators" (Missouri, Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,543, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Altec Industries Inc. (Birmingham, Ala.).

"Cooperative high-capacity and high-dexterity manipulators" was invented by Timothy J. Mourlam (Shawnee, Kan.), David Lindquist (Cameron, Mo.), William Naber (Saint Joseph, Mo.) and Jonathan Westin Sykes (Gower, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for cooperative aerial robotics for working in an aerial work environment. In some embodiments, a robot system may comprise a robot unit comprising high-dexterity manipulators for performing high-dexterity work. The robot system may further comprise a high-capacity manipulator for performing h...