US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Sept. 30 for "Concentric suction cup tools with integrated brake assemblies" (American, Luxembourger Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,243, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Concentric suction cup tools with integrated brake assemblies" was invented by Felipe De Arruda Camargo Polido (North Reading, Mass.), Vincent Kerstholt (Luxembourgh, Luxembourg) and Aaron Size (Waltham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for concentric suction cup tools with integrated brake assemblies. In one embodiment, an example picking assembly may include a first piston subassembly having a first shell and a first suction cup, the first piston subassembly configured to independently actuate from a retracted positi...